🔢 Word, Character & Reading Time Counter
Count words, characters, sentences, paragraphs, and estimate reading & speaking time in real time.
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📊 Top 10 Most Frequent Words
- Type some text to see word frequency…
How the Word Counter Works
This free word counter analyzes your text in real time as you type. It runs entirely in your browser — no data is sent to any server.
Statistics Explained
- Words — Consecutive non-whitespace characters separated by spaces or line breaks
- Characters — Every character including spaces, punctuation, and symbols
- Characters (no spaces) — All characters excluding whitespace
- Sentences — Detected by sentence-ending punctuation: periods, exclamation marks, and question marks
- Paragraphs — Blocks of text separated by one or more blank lines
- Reading time — Based on an average silent reading speed of 200 words per minute
- Speaking time — Based on an average speaking pace of 130 words per minute
Tips for Using the Word Counter
- Use the character limit feature for Twitter posts (280 chars), meta descriptions (155 chars), or SMS messages (160 chars)
- The top frequent words list helps identify overused words for better writing variety
- Click Copy Stats to quickly paste statistics into reports or documents