Word & Character Counter
Words, characters, lines, sentences, reading time.
How to use
- 1 Type or paste your text.
- 2 Watch the statistics update live.
- 3 Use the word and character figures to hit your target length.
About Word & Character Counter
The Word & Character Counter gives you a live breakdown of any text: word count, characters with and without spaces, lines, sentences, paragraphs and an estimated reading time at 200 words per minute.
Characters are counted by Unicode code point, so an emoji counts as one character — not the two or four bytes some naive counters report.
It is handy for staying inside a tweet, meta-description or SMS limit, sizing an essay against a word target, or estimating how long a page takes to read.
Nothing you paste is uploaded — the analysis happens in your browser as you type.
FAQ
How is reading time calculated?
Word count divided by 200 words per minute, rounded up to whole minutes — a common average reading speed.
How are emoji counted?
By Unicode code point, so most emoji count as a single character rather than several bytes.