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Word Counter

Paste text to see words, characters, sentences, paragraphs and estimated reading time.

How to word counter

  1. 1Paste your text.
  2. 2Run the count.
  3. 3Read the statistics in the results panel.

About this tool

Word limits are everywhere: essays, applications, abstracts, blog posts, product descriptions, tender responses. Guessing puts you at risk of a rejection for something entirely fixable, and word processor counts differ depending on how they treat hyphens and numbers.

Paste your text and you get the word count, character counts with and without spaces, sentence and paragraph counts, and an estimated reading time based on an average of around 200 words per minute. Nothing is uploaded, so unpublished writing and confidential drafts are safe to measure here.

What it's good for

  • Checking an essay or application against a word limit.
  • Estimating how long an article takes to read.
  • Measuring a description against a marketplace limit.
  • Tracking daily writing output.

Features

  • Full statistics

    Words, characters, sentences and paragraphs together.

  • Reading time

    Estimated from a typical adult reading speed.

  • Nothing stored

    Your draft is counted in the browser and discarded.

  • Any length

    From a tweet to a dissertation.

Questions people ask

How is reading time calculated?
From the word count at roughly 200 words per minute, which is a typical adult silent reading speed.
Why does my word processor disagree?
Tools differ over hyphenated words, numbers and symbols. Differences of a percent or two are normal.
Is my text saved?
No. It is counted in your browser and never transmitted.

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