Word Counter
Count words, characters, sentences, paragraphs, and estimate reading time in real-time. Free online text analysis tool.
About Word Counting
Word counting is essential for writers, students, and content creators who must meet specific length requirements. Many platforms enforce character or word limits — Twitter/X (280 characters), meta descriptions (155 characters), and college essays often have strict word counts.
Simply type or paste your text into the editor and all statistics update in real-time: words, characters (with and without spaces), sentences, paragraphs, and estimated reading time. There is no need to click a button — the counts refresh instantly as you type or edit.
Word counting is commonly used for checking blog post and article length, meeting academic essay requirements, optimizing SEO meta descriptions and title tags, crafting social media posts within character limits, and estimating presentation or speech duration from word count.
Reading time is calculated at approximately 225 words per minute, which is the average adult reading speed. Sentences are detected by punctuation boundaries (periods, exclamation marks, question marks), and paragraphs are separated by blank lines. The tool handles all Unicode text including CJK characters for multilingual word counting.