Word & Character Counter
Paste or type any text and watch the numbers update instantly: words, characters with and without spaces, sentences, paragraphs and an estimated reading time.
How the counts are calculated
Words are split on any run of Unicode whitespace, which handles tabs, non-breaking spaces and pasted PDF text more reliably than naive "split on space" counters. Sentences are counted by sentence-final punctuation (. ! ? and their full-width variants), so a paragraph of bullet points without periods will report zero sentences — matching how most editorial style guides count. Paragraphs are blocks separated by one or more blank lines.
Reading time uses the standard adult silent-reading benchmark of 200 words per minute, rounded to a friendly format. For caption-heavy social posts, watch the "Without spaces" figure: many platforms count characters but ignore line breaks, and this counter keeps both numbers visible so you never get clipped at publish time.
FAQ
- Is the counting accurate for non-English text?
- Word counts assume space-delimited languages (English and most European languages). For Chinese or Japanese, the character counts are the meaningful metric.
- Does this work offline?
- Yes — once the page has loaded, all counting logic is local. You can type an entire draft with the network unplugged.
- Is my text stored anywhere?
- No storage, no analytics on content, no uploads. Refreshing the page discards everything.