Word Count Tool

What is Word Count Tool?

Paste or type your text and get an instant breakdown: word count, character count (with and without spaces), sentence count, paragraph count, and an estimated reading and speaking time. Useful for meeting a word limit on an essay or article, checking a meta description or tweet length, or estimating how long a script will take to read aloud. Everything is counted live in your browser as you type. Nothing you paste here is sent anywhere.

How to Use the Word Count Tool

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   Paste or Type Your Text: Enter the text you want to measure.

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   Read the Counts Instantly: Word, character, sentence, and paragraph counts, plus estimated reading/speaking time, update automatically as you type.

How It Works

Text is split on whitespace to count words, so a number or a hyphenated term counts as one word, the same convention most word processors use. Character count is shown both with and without spaces, sentence count splits on terminal punctuation (. ! ?), and paragraph count splits on blank lines. All counts update live as you type, entirely in your browser.

Example

"The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog." counts as 9 words, 45 characters with spaces, 1 sentence, and roughly 3 seconds of estimated reading time.

Common Use Cases

Meeting a word limit on an essay, article, or cover letter, checking a social media post or meta description against its character cap, or estimating how long a script or speech will take to read aloud before recording it.