Word & Character Counter
Word, character, sentence, paragraph counts and reading-time estimate.
About Word & Character Counter
Word & Character Counter reports word, character, sentence, paragraph, and line counts for any text you paste, plus a reading-time estimate. The classic use cases: keeping a tweet under 280 characters, hitting an SEO meta-description sweet spot (around 155–160 characters), staying within an essay word limit, or estimating how long a blog post will take a reader to get through.
Worked example: paste a 600-word draft and the counter shows 600 words, about 3,800 characters (with spaces), 45 or so sentences, the paragraph count, and a reading time around 3 minutes at 200 words per minute. Counts update live as you type or paste. Character count comes in two flavors — with spaces and without — because different platforms use different definitions; X/Twitter and most SEO tools count characters with spaces, while some academic word-count limits count without.
Two notes on what the counts actually mean. The reading-time estimate uses 200 words per minute as a default, which is roughly average for general-audience prose; technical content reads slower (often 100–150 wpm), and skimmed content reads faster. Word counting splits on whitespace and standard punctuation, so 'don't' is one word and 'a-b' is one word, but 'a / b' is three tokens — which is usually what you want. Sentence counting uses period, question-mark, and exclamation as separators, which handles most prose correctly but can miscount in heading-heavy text or abbreviation-rich writing.
Everything runs in your browser. Drafts, emails, and copy-in-progress are never uploaded.