Word Counter
Paste or type text and the counts update instantly: words, characters (with and without spaces), sentences, paragraphs, lines, reading time at 238 words per minute and speaking time at 150. The ten most frequent meaningful words are listed too.
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How words are counted
A word is a run of letters or digits, optionally joined by an apostrophe or hyphen (“don’t”, “well-known”). Characters are counted as Unicode code points, so an emoji counts once. Sentences end with ., !, ? or …
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Limits
Abbreviations such as “e.g.” can be counted as sentence ends. Reading-time averages come from published adult silent-reading research (≈238 wpm) and vary by person and text.
Common questions
Does it count spaces as characters?
Both figures are shown: characters including spaces and characters excluding all whitespace.
Is there a length limit?
Up to 2,000,000 characters, more than most books.
Methodology reviewed 2026-10-27. Processing details and test approach.