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Word & Character Counter

Count words, characters, lines, sentences and paragraphs in your text instantly

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Words
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Characters
Characters (without spaces)0
Sentences0
Lines0
Paragraphs0
Reading time0 seconds
Speaking time0 seconds

Counts words, characters with and without spaces, sentences, lines and paragraphs as you type or paste, and estimates how long the text takes to read and to say aloud — for essays with word limits, social posts with character limits, meta descriptions and speeches.

Counting happens in your browser; your text is not sent anywhere.

What counts as what

  • Words — runs of characters separated by spaces, tabs or line breaks. “don't” and “e-mail” are one word each; a dash with spaces around it counts as a word.
  • Characters — everything, including spaces and line breaks; without spaces leaves out all whitespace. A character is what a reader sees as one: an emoji, a flag or a letter with an accent counts once, however many code units it is stored as. Some platforms, such as X, count most emoji as two, so their counters can show more.
  • Sentences — text ending in a full stop, question mark or exclamation mark, or at the end of the text. Abbreviations like “Dr.” end a sentence too.
  • Lines — every line break starts a new line, including empty ones.
  • Paragraphs — blocks separated by at least one blank line.
  • Reading time — words at 238 per minute; speaking time — words at 183 per minute. These are the average rates for reading non-fiction silently and for reading aloud in Brysbaert's 2019 meta-analysis of 190 studies (Journal of Memory and Language, vol. 109). Under a minute shows seconds; longer times round to the minute. A speech with pauses runs longer.

Examples

Two short paragraphs

Text
Hello world. How are you today?

I'm fine, thanks!
Words
9
Characters
50
Without spaces
41
Sentences
3
Lines
3
Paragraphs
2
Reading time
2 seconds
Speaking time
3 seconds

See also