Count words, characters, sentences, paragraphs, and estimate reading time.
Paste or type any text to instantly see your word count, character count (with and without spaces), sentence count, paragraph count, line count, and estimated reading time at 200 words per minute. Use the Copy stats button to share or log the results.
Type or paste your text into the large box — all statistics update in real time. Click Copy stats to copy the full summary to your clipboard, or Clear to start again.
Word count stops being a trivial number as soon as a brief, form, editor, or platform depends on it. Writers need to hit targets, students need to stay inside limits, marketers need to fit fields, and editors need a fast sense of whether a draft is too short, too long, or just unevenly structured.
This tool gives you the main counts in one place so you can judge fit before the text leaves your hands.
Useful for article briefs, essays, submissions, and any target expressed as overall length.
Useful for titles, meta descriptions, ad fields, short bios, and other constrained spaces.
Useful when the problem is not only total length but pacing, density, or structure.
Seeing those numbers together is often more useful than seeing any one of them alone.
If a writer is aiming for 800 words and lands at 1,150, that changes the editing job immediately.
Applications, proposals, and academic work often impose rules that are easy to miss until the final paste.
A page can be technically the right length overall and still have paragraphs that are too long or sections that feel underdeveloped.
Character-limited fields punish guesswork. A combined counter helps when one piece of text may need to satisfy several destinations.
Two paragraphs can look similar on screen and differ more than expected once counted properly.
A draft may hit the word target while still having sentences that run too long or paragraphs that need breaking up.
Late counting usually produces rushed cuts instead of deliberate editing.
If the brief says 1,200 words, the first question is whether the draft is genuinely in range before anyone argues about polish.
A strong answer often needs one pass for content and another for strict fit.
Sentence and paragraph counts can quickly reveal whether a draft is dense in a way that will feel heavy online.
This tool counts text. It does not improve style, score readability, or decide whether the content is good. It gives you the measurement layer that supports those judgments.
Counting is basic, but it sits underneath a lot of professional decisions. A simple reliable counter saves time because it answers the first structural question quickly: how much text is actually here?
At an average adult reading speed of 200 words per minute, rounded up to the nearest minute.
Text is split on full stops, exclamation marks, and question marks. Abbreviations and ellipses may slightly inflate the count.
Both. The main figure includes spaces; the smaller number below it shows characters with all spaces removed.
This tool runs entirely in your browser. Nothing you type or paste is sent to any server — all processing happens locally on your device.