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Enter your content in the text area below. Stats update instantly as you type.
Check word count, character count, sentences, paragraphs, reading time, and grade level at a glance.
Use the character limit indicators at the bottom to see if your text fits within popular platform limits.
A word counter is a tool that counts the words, characters, sentences, and paragraphs in a piece of text as you type or paste it. Writers use it to hit essay limits, editors use it to size articles, and marketers use it to keep ads and meta descriptions inside platform limits.
This word counter runs entirely in your browser. Paste any amount of text and the counts update in real time, including characters with and without spaces, sentence count, paragraph count, and an estimated reading time. Nothing you type is uploaded or stored.
Twitter and X allow 280 characters. Google typically shows about 60 characters of a title tag and 160 of a meta description. College essays often require 250 to 650 words, and IELTS writing tasks ask for at least 150 or 250 words. A live counter takes the guesswork out of all of these targets and lets you edit toward the limit instead of checking after the fact.
The counter treats any run of characters separated by spaces or line breaks as a word, the same approach used by most word processors. Hyphenated words count as one word. Numbers count as words. This matches what teachers, editors, and submission systems expect, so the number you see here is the number they will see too.
Average adults read around 200 to 250 words per minute. Knowing the reading time of your article helps you match the length your audience expects. Blog posts often perform well between 5 and 9 minutes of reading time, while newsletters and product updates work better when they stay under 2 minutes.
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