Word & Character Counter
Paste or type text to see live counts — characters, words, sentences, lines, paragraphs, and an estimated reading time.
- Characters
- 0
- Characters (no spaces)
- 0
- Words
- 0
- Sentences
- 0
- Lines
- 0
- Paragraphs
- 0
- Reading time
- 0 min
How counts are calculated
| Metric | Method |
|---|---|
| Words | Runs of non-whitespace characters |
| Sentences | Text split on ".", "!", or "?" — an approximation, not full sentence-boundary detection |
| Paragraphs | Text split on blank lines (two or more consecutive line breaks) |
| Reading time | Word count ÷ 200 words per minute, rounded up to the nearest minute |
Sentence counting is a simple punctuation heuristic — abbreviations like "Dr." or "e.g." will still register as sentence breaks, the same tradeoff every lightweight word-count tool makes without a full NLP sentence tokenizer.