Word Counter
Words, characters, sentences, paragraphs and estimated reading time, updated live as you type. Nothing is uploaded.
Type some text to see its most frequent words (common stop words are ignored).
How this word counter works
Everything is measured in your browser as you type, so the count is instant and your text is never uploaded. Words are detected with the Unicode segmentation built into your browser (Intl.Segmenter) when available, which is why scripts without spaces between words, such as Chinese, Japanese or Thai, are still counted correctly rather than treated as a single word.
Reading time
Reading time assumes 238 words per minute, the mean silent reading rate for adults reading English prose in the research literature. It is an estimate: dense technical text reads slower, familiar text faster.
Definitions
- Characters: every code point, including spaces and line breaks. The no-spaces figure strips all whitespace.
- Sentences: runs of text ending in a period, question mark or exclamation mark.
- Paragraphs: blocks separated by a blank line.