A word counter measures the size of a piece of text: how many words, characters (with and without spaces), sentences, paragraphs, and how long it would take to read aloud. Writers use it to hit assignment limits, SEOs use it to gauge article depth, and students use it to confirm an essay meets a minimum. Our free word counter updates every statistic the instant you type or paste, with no button to click.
Paste or type into the box above. The tool splits on whitespace to count words, scans for sentence-ending punctuation to count sentences, and groups blank-line breaks into paragraphs. Reading time is estimated at a standard 200 words per minute. If you are drafting in Markdown, our Markdown editor and online notepad pair well with this counter.
The reading-time figure helps bloggers set expectations ("4 min read") and helps editors balance a newsletter. Keyword density lists your most frequent meaningful words so you can see whether a topic is actually emphasized — useful before you run a draft through an SEO meta generator. Density is a hint, not a target; stuffing keywords hurts more than it helps.
Different platforms cap different things: a meta description by characters, an SMS by bytes, a headline by length. The character counters here cover both total and no-space counts, while the sentence and paragraph tallies help you spot run-on blocks that should be split for readability.
Counting happens in your browser. Your text is never uploaded, so drafts, private notes, and unpublished work stay on your device. For case adjustments before counting, the text case converter is one click away.
Words are counted by splitting your text on whitespace; sentences are counted by scanning for periods, exclamation marks, and question marks; paragraphs are groups separated by blank lines. All counts update live as you type.
Reading time uses an average adult reading speed of about 200 words per minute. The tool divides your word count by 200 and rounds up to the nearest minute.
Keyword density shows the words you use most often, excluding common stop words like 'the' and 'and'. It helps you see the main themes of a text, but it should guide editing rather than be artificially maximized.
Yes. The tool reports total characters and characters without spaces, which is handy for platforms that limit length by visible characters rather than bytes.
Yes. It is free, requires no signup, and works entirely in your browser.
No. All counting happens locally on your device, so anything you paste stays private.
Yes. Word splitting on whitespace works for most Latin-script languages. Languages without spaces between words (such as Chinese or Japanese) will show a lower word count because the tool counts whitespace-separated tokens.
This tool focuses on counts and density. For side-by-side comparison of two versions, our text diff checker highlights added and removed passages.
Once the page has loaded, the counting logic runs in your browser and continues to work without an internet connection.
A word is a whitespace-separated token; a character is a single letter, digit, space, or punctuation mark. A 5-letter word is one word but six characters including its space separator.
