Word Counter

Most platforms measure limits differently. Word processors count words; social networks and form fields count characters, and some count spaces as well. This counter reports characters with spaces and characters without them side by side, so you can match whichever limit you are actually up against instead of guessing which one applies.

Sentences are counted from sentence-ending punctuation, paragraphs from blank-line separated blocks, and lines from newlines, with a trailing newline not treated as an extra empty line. Those three counts are what you need for school essays, submissions and CMS fields that ask for a paragraph limit rather than a word limit.

Reading time is calculated at 200 words per minute, a common average for silent reading of general non-technical prose. The minute figure is rounded up, so anything from a single word to 200 words reads as one minute, and a seconds figure is also returned. Treat it as a planning estimate: technical text, dense tables and skimming all change the real time.

Character counts use multibyte-safe string functions, so accented letters, CJK characters and emoji are each counted as one character rather than as the two or four bytes they occupy in UTF-8. That matters if you are writing in a non-Latin script or checking a limit set by a service that counts characters rather than bytes.

The live counters are computed in the page, and the text is only submitted when you press Run. Nothing is saved to an account, and there is no history of what you typed. The live count is there for feedback while you write; the server count is there so the number you trust matches a real recount.