Word Counter

Type or paste text and the counts update as you go: words, characters with and without spaces, sentences, paragraphs and lines. Reading time (about 238 words per minute) and speaking time (about 150 words per minute) help you fit an article, speech, caption or abstract to a target length.

Unlike simple counters that split on spaces, this tool understands languages written without spaces. In supported browsers it uses the built-in Intl.Segmenter word-break dictionaries, so Chinese, Japanese and Thai text is counted as real words rather than as one giant word. Characters are counted as user-perceived characters, so an emoji or an accented letter counts once. In older browsers a heuristic fallback counts each Chinese or Japanese character and estimates Thai.

The keyword table lists your most frequent words with counts and density, optionally ignoring common English filler words such as the, and, of. It is useful for spotting over-used terms in copy or checking keyword focus. Everything is calculated locally as you type.