Live word, character, sentence, and paragraph counts, plus an estimated reading time.
Paste or type text below and every count updates as you go — useful for meeting a word-count minimum or maximum on an essay, meta description, tweet, or cover letter.
Words are counted by splitting on whitespace, so hyphenated words and contractions
count as one word each. Sentences are counted by looking for text ending in
., !, or ? — it's a simple heuristic, so abbreviations with
periods can occasionally throw the count off by one or two. Paragraphs are counted
as blocks of text separated by a blank line. Read time is estimated at 200 words
per minute, a common average adult silent-reading speed.
Common uses: staying under a Twitter/X character limit, hitting a minimum word count for an assignment, checking a meta description fits Google's ~155-character display limit, or estimating how long a blog post or script will take to read aloud.