Word & Character Counter

Type or paste your text; instantly see the word, character, sentence, paragraph and line counts, along with the estimated reading time.

Runs 100% in your browser — your text is never sent to a server.
Words
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Characters (with spaces)
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Characters (without spaces)
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Sentences
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Paragraphs
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Lines
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Reading Time
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What Is a Word Counter Useful For?

This tool instantly analyzes the text you type or paste every time you press a key: it calculates word, character (with/without spaces), sentence, paragraph and line counts, and estimates how many minutes an average reader would take to read it. The calculation relies on simple but practical rules — words are chunks separated by spaces or line breaks, sentences are chunks ending in a period, exclamation mark or question mark, and paragraphs are blocks separated by at least one blank line.

Its most common use is SEO: Google search results truncate a page title after roughly 60 characters and a meta description after roughly 160 — paste a title/description draft here to instantly see where it lands. You can just as easily check whether an essay or article meets a "at least 1,000 words" requirement, whether a social media post fits a limit (e.g. X's 280 characters), or whether a CV summary stays within its character budget.

Tip: the difference between "Characters (with spaces)" and "Characters (without spaces)" matters when preparing content for a platform that doesn't count spaces (e.g. some form fields). The reading time estimate assumes an average speed of 200 words per minute, which is handy for roughly predicting a piece's "X minute read" label. Whatever your text is — an SEO draft, an assignment, or a private note — it is never sent to a server; all counting happens in your browser with JavaScript.

It's also handy for freelance writers and translators: when delivering work billed per word, you can quickly verify that the text matches the word count stated in the contract. It's equally useful for content marketers writing blog posts — articles that rank well in search engines are often observed to fall in the 1,000-2,000 word range, and you can track live, as you write, whether your draft is approaching that range.

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Frequently Asked Questions

The text is trimmed of leading/trailing whitespace, then split into chunks separated by one or more spaces/line breaks. Empty text, or text containing only whitespace, counts as 0 words.

Chunks ending with a period (.), exclamation mark (!), question mark (?) or ellipsis (…) each count as one sentence. A trailing chunk that contains text but doesn't end with any of these marks is also counted, as an unfinished sentence.

The line count counts every line break (Enter) in the text. The paragraph count counts blocks of text separated by one or more blank lines — consecutive lines with no blank line between them are treated as a single paragraph.

We assume an average adult reader reads at roughly 200 words per minute; the word count is divided by this rate to produce a minute:second estimate. Your actual reading speed may vary depending on how difficult the text is.

Paste your text into the tool and compare the "Characters (with spaces)" count against your target platform's limit (e.g. 280 for X/Twitter, ~160 for a Google meta description, 500 for some form fields). If you're over the limit, trim the text and check the counter again — since it updates live as you type, trial and error is fast.

Yes. Character counting splits the text into individual Unicode characters (counting emoji-style multi-code-unit characters as a single character too); Turkish-specific letters are standard single-unit characters, so they're counted correctly.

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