Count words and characters as you type.
Paste any text to see its words, characters, sentences, paragraphs, reading time and readability grade. It all runs in your browser, so nothing is sent anywhere.
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- Words and characters
- Sentences and paragraphs
- Reading and speaking time
- Readability grade
- Top keywords and density
What you get
Every count you need, in one place.
Words, characters with and without spaces, sentences and paragraphs, plus how long the text takes to read or say, how hard it is to read, and which words it leans on most.
word counter · blog draft
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- words1,248
- characters7,412 (6,170 without spaces)
- sentences71
- paragraphs18
- reading time5 min 15 sec
- speaking time6 min 49 sec
- readabilitygrade 8
top keyword: email marketing, 1.2%counted in your browser
Why it matters
Length decides where your words can go.
Search results, social posts and assignments all have limits. Knowing the count before you publish or hand in saves a rewrite later.
Search
Snippets get cut
Google shortens titles past about 60 characters and descriptions past about 160. Write to fit and your full message shows.
Briefs
Word counts are the brief
Essays, client articles and product pages usually come with a target length. Hit it without counting by hand.
Readers
Long sentences lose people
The readability grade and average sentence length show when a text has become hard work, so you can trim it before readers leave.
Who it's for
For anyone who writes to a limit.
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Writers and students
Check an essay, article or application against its word count, and see how readable it is as you edit.
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SEO and content teams
Fit titles and meta descriptions to what search results show, and see which keywords a page repeats most.
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Social media managers
Check a post or caption against the X, Instagram and LinkedIn character limits before you paste it in.
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Speakers and podcasters
See how long a script takes to say out loud, so a talk or episode fits its slot.
How it works
From text to counts while you type.
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Type or paste your text
Write straight into the box or paste a draft from anywhere. There is no button to press.
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Watch the counts update
Words, characters, sentences, paragraphs, timings and the readability grade change with every edit.
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Check where it fits
See whether the text fits a title tag, meta description, X post, Instagram caption or LinkedIn post, and which keywords it leans on.
FAQ
Questions, answered.
A word is a run of letters or numbers between spaces or punctuation. Hyphenated words such as well-known and contractions such as don't count as one word, numbers count as words, and HTML tags in pasted code are ignored.
Yes. Characters counts every letter, number, punctuation mark, space and line break between the first and last character of your text. The count without spaces leaves out spaces, tabs and line breaks.
Reading time assumes 238 words a minute and speaking time 183 words a minute. Those are the average adult rates for English non-fiction, read silently and read aloud, from a 2019 review of reading research by Marc Brysbaert. Your own pace may be faster or slower.
A sentence ends at a full stop, question mark, exclamation mark or line break. Decimals such as 3.5 and titles such as Dr. do not end one. A paragraph is each block of text on its own line, and blank lines are skipped.
It is the US school grade a reader needs to follow the text easily, worked out from the length of your words and sentences with the Automated Readability Index. Most web pages read well at grade 9 or lower.
Around 150 to 160 characters. Google cuts descriptions by pixel width rather than an exact count, so put the important part first. Titles are cut at about 60 characters for the same reason.
A standard post on X allows 280 characters, an Instagram caption 2,200 and a LinkedIn post 3,000. Some platforms count emoji and links differently, so treat the fit list as a close guide.
The one- and two-word phrases you use most, with common words such as the and of left out. Density is how much of your text each one takes up. For three-word phrases and keywords you choose to track, use the keyword density checker.
Yes. Everything is counted in your browser. Your text is never sent to a server or stored, and the counter is free to use with no account and no limit.
It counts words in any language that puts spaces between them. Chinese, Japanese and Thai do not, so the word count runs low there and the character count is the better measure. The reading times and readability grade are based on English.
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