Word, character & reading-time counter
Counts update as you type. Below them: a readability score and how your text compares to common platform limits.
Your text never leaves your browser.
Your draft is saved in this browser only — never sent anywhere — so a refresh won't lose it.
0
Words
0
Characters
0
Characters (no spaces)
0
Sentences
0
Paragraphs
0
Unique words
0 min
Reading time
0 min
Speaking time
This looks like Chinese, Japanese, or Korean text, which doesn't use spaces between words the way English does — the word count above will be unreliable. Character count is the meaningful number here.
Flesch Reading Ease — .See which sentences are the problem →
This text is long enough that computing a readability score would slow down typing, so it's skipped by default.
Platform character limits
Where these numbers come from
Word and sentence counts use the same tokenizer as every other tool on this site, so the number here matches what the Readability Explainer and the Sentence Length Visualizer report for the same text. Character counts use Unicode code points rather than raw string length, so an emoji or an accented letter like "é" each count as one character, not two or three.
Reading time
Reading time divides your word count by 238 words per minute — Marc Brysbaert's 2019 meta-analysis of silent reading rate, not the 200 wpm figure most counters still use without citing where it came from. Speaking time uses 140 words per minute, closer to a typical conversational pace. See reading speed and reading time for where both numbers come from and why any single figure is an estimate, not a guarantee.
Paragraphs
Paragraphs are counted as runs of text separated by a blank line. If your text has no blank lines at all, each line break counts as a paragraph break instead, so notes and lists still get a sensible count.