Word Counter

It counts words, characters with and without spaces, sentences, paragraphs, lines, and estimated reading time, all updated instantly as you type or paste. This covers most limits people run into day to day: a word count required for an essay or article, a character limit for a tweet or meta description, or a rough sense of how long a piece will take to read aloud.

Students checking an essay against a required word count, writers and editors tracking article length, marketers fitting copy into a character-limited field like a meta description or ad headline, and anyone submitting text to a form with a strict limit.

The estimate assumes about 225 words per minute, a typical adult reading speed, and rounds up to at least one minute whenever there is text.

Letters and numbers grouped together count as one word, including common apostrophes and hyphenated forms like 'don't' or 'well-known'.

No. Counting happens locally in your browser.

No. The text stays in the page only until you clear it or close the tab, so nothing is kept afterward.

Some limits, like certain form fields or database columns, count every character including spaces, while others only count visible characters. Showing both numbers lets you check against whichever rule applies.