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Paste or type your text. Words, characters, reading time and density — instantly.
The Word Counter reports words, characters, sentences, paragraphs, and estimated reading time as you write — the essential companion for essays, articles, and anything with a word target.
It updates live and keeps your text entirely on your device.
The tool splits text on word boundaries to count words, tallies characters as code points, and detects sentence and paragraph breaks; reading time is derived from a typical adult reading speed. Every metric recalculates instantly on each keystroke.
Because it runs locally, long manuscripts count smoothly and privately, with nothing sent to a server.
Drop in a 500-word blog draft and you immediately see the word count, the character total, and an estimated reading time of a couple of minutes — handy for hitting an editor's brief.
From your word count at an average adult reading pace of roughly 200-250 words per minute.
Yes — words, characters, sentences, and paragraphs, all live.
No — all counting happens in your browser.
No practical limit for normal documents.
Yes — 25 languages, free.