Word & Character Counter

Paste or type text to see live counts for words, characters, sentences, paragraphs, and estimated reading time.

Your text Counts update automatically as you type.

Words

Characters

Chars (no spaces)

Sentences

Paragraphs

Reading time

🔒 Nothing you enter is sent anywhere or stored. All processing happens in your browser.

How it works

This counter analyses your text entirely in your browser using JavaScript's native string handling. As you type or paste, it recalculates six metrics in real time.

Words are counted as runs of non-whitespace characters, which matches how most editors and word processors count. Characters gives the raw length including spaces and line breaks, while characters without spaces strips all whitespace — useful when a platform limits visible characters. Sentences are detected by terminal punctuation (. ! ? …), so most prose counts accurately, though abbreviations can occasionally inflate the number. Paragraphs are blocks separated by line breaks.

Reading time assumes an average silent reading speed of about 200 words per minute, a common benchmark for adult readers of general-audience content. Short texts are shown in seconds and longer ones in minutes.

Because everything runs locally, you can safely paste sensitive drafts, unpublished work, or client copy — nothing is uploaded, logged, or stored.

Examples

Input: "The quick brown fox." → Words: 4, Characters: 20, Sentences: 1.

A 600-word blog draft → Reading time ≈ 3 min at 200 wpm.

Tweet check: paste your draft to confirm it fits a 280-character limit before posting.

Frequently asked questions

How is reading time calculated?

We divide the word count by 200 words per minute, a widely used average for adult silent reading. Technical or dense material may read slower; skim reading is faster.

Does it count characters with or without spaces?

Both. We show total characters (including spaces and line breaks) and a separate count with all whitespace removed, so you can match whatever limit you're working against.

Is my text uploaded anywhere?

No. All counting happens in your browser with JavaScript. Your text is never sent to a server, saved, or logged.

How are sentences detected?

By counting groups ending in sentence punctuation (period, exclamation mark, question mark, or ellipsis). Abbreviations like 'e.g.' can occasionally be miscounted, so treat sentence counts as a close estimate.

Is there a character limit?

No hard limit — you can paste very large documents. Extremely large pastes (hundreds of thousands of words) may briefly slow older devices, but nothing is truncated.