Word Counter

Counts words, characters (with and without spaces), unique words, sentences, and paragraphs for any text you paste in, then adds reading, speaking and handwriting time estimates, an estimated readability score, a small top-keywords list, and checks against common character limits — all updating live as you type.

Paste or type into the box — every number below it updates immediately. There's no button to press, no file to upload, and no length limit to hit. Expand "More stats" for line count, byte count, average words per sentence, and longest/shortest sentence length.

For "The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog. It runs fast!" followed by a blank line and "Another paragraph here.", the tool reports 15 words (14 unique), 83 characters with spaces, 68 without spaces, 3 sentences averaging 5 words each (longest 9, shortest 3), 2 paragraphs, and a 1-minute reading and speaking time.

Words are the trimmed text split on whitespace; unique words are counted case-insensitively after stripping surrounding punctuation. Sentences are runs of text ending in a period, exclamation mark, or question mark — a trailing chunk with no closing punctuation still counts as one sentence. Paragraphs are lines separated by one or more blank lines.

Reading time divides your word count by 200 words per minute, speaking time by 130 words per minute, and handwriting time by 13 words per minute — fixed averages, rounded to the nearest minute with a 1-minute floor for any non-empty text. Estimated pages assumes roughly 250 words per double-spaced page.

The readability score estimates how easy your text is to read, using the Flesch Reading Ease formula for English (the same approach adapted for German, Spanish, French and Turkish) based on sentence length and a vowel-counting syllable estimate — not a dictionary, so treat it as directional rather than exact. The top-keywords list excludes common function words and shows how often your remaining words repeat; for deeper analysis on longer content, use the Keyword Density Checker. The length checks compare your character count against common limits: an SEO title (60 characters), a meta description (160), an X/Twitter post (280), an SMS (160), and an Instagram caption (2,200).

Sentence counting is purely punctuation-based, so abbreviations like "Dr." or decimals like "3.14" can be miscounted as extra sentence breaks. Syllable counts are a vowel-group heuristic rather than a real syllabifier, so treat close readability scores as roughly equal, not precisely ranked.

All counting runs locally in your browser as you type — nothing is uploaded to a server or stored anywhere.