Word and character counter

Count words, characters, sentences, and reading time as you type.

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How to use Word counter

Paste or type in the box. Totals update instantly. Use it to hit a 160-character meta description, a 2200-character Instagram caption, or a school word minimum. Nothing is uploaded.

A live counter for essays, captions, and meta descriptions. See words, characters (with and without spaces), sentences, paragraphs, and estimated reading time.

Also searched as word counter, character counter, word count. All processing for this tool happens in your tab unless labeled otherwise.

Questions

How is a word counted?

Whitespace-separated tokens. Hyphenated compounds count as one.

Reading time?

Assumes ~220 words per minute, a common silent-reading average.

Character limits?

The counter itself has no cap beyond browser memory.

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