Count words, characters, sentences, paragraphs and reading time in your text. Perfect for essays, articles, social media posts and SEO.
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This tool analyzes your text in real time and gives you:
Different platforms and formats have specific character or word limits:
Whether you're writing an essay, publishing a blog post, crafting a tweet or optimizing for SEO, staying within (or hitting) specific word and character limits is essential. Search engines, social platforms and academic institutions all have preferred lengths for optimal performance.
The average adult reads at around 225 words per minute for silent reading and 130 words per minute when reading aloud. This calculator uses those averages to give you a realistic estimate — perfect for journalists, podcasters, speakers and content creators.
Reading-time math: average adults read 200–250 words per minute, so a 1,000-word article ≈ 4–5 minutes. Use the counts to hit limits exactly — editors, forms and platforms rarely warn you before cutting text off.
All counting happens instantly in your browser. Your text is never sent to any server and never stored.
The tool counts any sequence of characters separated by spaces, tabs or line breaks as one word. Numbers, hyphenated words (like 'well-known') and contractions (like 'don't') each count as a single word.
'Characters with spaces' counts every character in your text including spaces, tabs and line breaks. 'Characters without spaces' counts only letters, numbers, punctuation and symbols. Both are useful — Twitter counts spaces, but many databases don't.
Reading time is based on the average adult silent reading speed of 225 words per minute (WPM). Speaking time uses 130 WPM, which is the average pace for clear speech. These are widely accepted averages used by publishers and educators.
Sentences are counted by detecting sentence-ending punctuation: periods (.), question marks (?) and exclamation marks (!). Abbreviations like 'Mr.' or 'e.g.' may occasionally cause small variations, but the count is accurate for typical writing.
No! You can paste text of any length — from a single tweet to an entire book. All processing happens in your browser, so there's no server limit.
Yes! All counting happens locally in your browser. Your text is never sent to any server or stored anywhere.