Word Counter

Words, characters with and without spaces, lines, sentences, paragraphs, UTF-8 bytes and an estimated reading time — all recalculated as you type. Nothing is submitted anywhere; the counting happens in this tab.

1. Type or paste your text — every count updates instantly as you type.
2. Read the tiles at the top for the totals you need.
3. Scroll down for the ten most frequently used words.

• Characters are counted as graphemes — what a person would call a character — using Intl.Segmenter where the browser supports it. An emoji with a skin-tone modifier counts as one, not four. This is why the character count can differ from what a code editor reports, which usually counts UTF-16 code units.
• Words use the same segmenter, so punctuation and repeated whitespace do not inflate the count.
• Sentences are detected by terminal punctuation followed by whitespace.
• Paragraphs are blocks separated by a blank line.
• Bytes is the UTF-8 length — the number that matters for a database column or an API limit, and often larger than the character count.
• Reading time assumes 225 words per minute, a common average for adult silent reading.

• Checking a meta description or social post against a character limit.
• Making sure a piece of copy fits a fixed space in a UI.
• Estimating how long an article takes to read.
• Checking whether a value will fit a VARCHAR column — the byte count is the one that matters.
• Tracking progress against a word count target.

• Sentence detection is rule-based. Abbreviations such as “Dr.” or “e.g.” are counted as sentence endings, which inflates the count slightly in prose that uses many of them.
• Reading time is a rough estimate. Dense technical writing is read considerably more slowly than 225 words per minute.
• Word segmentation for languages written without spaces, such as Japanese and Chinese, depends on your browser's segmenter and may not match another tool's count.
• The frequency table ignores single-character words and is case-insensitive.