Word Counter
Count words, characters, sentences, and paragraphs as you type. Estimate reading and speaking time for any text.
How to use this tool
- Type or paste your text into the textarea above.
- Counts update automatically as you type.
- Use Clear to remove all text, Copy Text to copy your text to the clipboard, or Load Sample to see a demonstration.
Words are counted by splitting on whitespace. Sentences are detected by periods, exclamation marks, and question marks followed by a space or end-of-text. This is a simplified heuristic and may not perfectly handle all linguistic edge cases (e.g., abbreviations like "Dr." or "U.S.A.").
Reading time is estimated at approximately 238 words per minute. Speaking time is estimated at approximately 150 words per minute. These are averages and actual times will vary.
Your text is not sent to any server — all counting happens locally in your browser.
Text Metrics, Readability, and Platform Character Limits
Meeting length constraints is critical for writers, students, marketers, and developers. Here is a practical reference for standard character and word limitations across major digital platforms:
| Platform / Medium | Recommended Constraint | Purpose |
|---|---|---|
| Google Title Tag | 50–60 characters | Avoid SERP snippet truncation |
| Google Meta Description | 140–160 characters | Optimal search result click-through rate |
| X (Twitter) Post | 280 characters | Standard post limit |
| Blog Article / SEO Post | 1,200–2,500 words | Comprehensive topical coverage |
Sentence and Paragraph Boundary Detection
Sentences are identified using punctuation terminators (period, exclamation point, question mark) followed by whitespace, while paragraphs are detected via consecutive line breaks. This provides writers with structural pacing feedback.
Frequently asked questions
The tool splits text across whitespace boundaries (spaces, tabs, newlines) and filters out empty tokens. Hyphenated compound words (such as 'state-of-the-art') count as a single word according to standard typographic convention.
Reading time is calculated based on an average adult silent reading speed of 200 words per minute (wpm). Speaking time is calculated based on a conversational presentation speed of 130 words per minute.
Character count with spaces measures the total string length including every space, tab, and line break. Character count without spaces strips all whitespace characters, which is frequently required by publisher submissions and academic abstracts.
Yes. All text parsing executes strictly inside your browser's local memory. No text is ever uploaded to a server, logged, stored, or sent across the internet.
Yes. The analyzer supports Unicode characters, accented letters, Cyrillic, Arabic, Asian scripts, and emojis.