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Word / Character Counter

Count words, characters, lines, paragraphs and sentences as you type, with reading and speaking time. Emoji and Chinese/Japanese text are counted correctly.

Your inputs and files stay in your browser

Type or paste your text here to count words, characters, and more...

Statistics

Words0

Total word count

Characters (with spaces)
0
Characters (no spaces)
0
Lines
0
Paragraphs
0
Sentences
0
Reading Time
0 min
Speaking Time
0 min
On this page

Type or paste text and watch word, character, line, paragraph and sentence counts update on every keystroke, together with estimated reading and speaking time. Handy for length limits on essays, meta descriptions, commit messages and UI copy.

Detailed Functionality

Characters are counted as user-perceived symbols (grapheme clusters): an emoji such as 👍, a family emoji built from several code points or a letter with a combining accent each count as one character. The Characters (no spaces) figure ignores all whitespace, including tabs and line breaks. Words are whitespace-separated tokens; Chinese and Japanese, which are written without spaces, are split into words with the browser's built-in word segmentation (Intl.Segmenter).

Lines are counted by line breaks (a Windows CRLF counts once), paragraphs by blank lines between blocks of text, and sentences by the terminators ., !, ?, … and the CJK full stops 。！？; a last sentence without punctuation still counts. Reading time assumes 200 words per minute and speaking time 130, rounded to whole minutes, with at least 1 minute for any non-empty text.

The statistics are computed by JavaScript in the page: the text is not uploaded and the tool does not store it. Paste and Copy use the system clipboard and may ask for your browser's permission.

Practical Examples

Two paragraphs: Hello world! How are you?, a blank line, then Second paragraph. gives 7 words, 3 sentences, 2 paragraphs, 3 lines and 44 characters (37 without spaces).

Emoji and accents: 👍 café is 2 words and 6 characters — the emoji and the accented é count as one character each.

Japanese without spaces: 東京は晴れです。 is counted as 4 words (in Chrome; the exact split depends on the browser's dictionary), 8 characters and 1 sentence.

Speech length: a 1,000-word text shows 5 min reading time and 8 min speaking time.

How to Use This Tool

  1. Enter the text

    Type in the Text field or press Paste to insert the clipboard contents.

  2. Read the statistics

    The Statistics panel updates on every edit: words, characters with and without spaces, lines, paragraphs and sentences.

  3. Check the time estimates

    Reading Time and Speaking Time show how long the text takes to read silently or deliver aloud.

  4. Copy or clear

    Press Copy to put the text back on the clipboard, or Clear to start over.

Tips and Best Practices

  • A dot inside a number or abbreviation also ends a sentence: Version 2.0 is out... counts as 2 sentences and e.g. this one as 3, so treat the sentence count as an estimate.
  • For limits measured in characters (meta descriptions, SMS, social posts) use Characters (with spaces); some services count UTF-16 units instead, where one emoji can count as 2.
  • Thai, Lao, Khmer and other scripts written without spaces are not segmented: a run of such text counts as one word.
  • Korean and Hindi separate words with spaces, so they are counted like English.
  • After the first visit the page also works without a network connection.