Word Counter

How it works

Word counting sounds mechanical, but the details matter when a limit is strict. This counter counts words as sequences separated by whitespace, which matches how Word and Google Docs treat hyphenated line breaks and pasted content closely enough for essays, articles and applications. Characters are reported two ways: with spaces, which is what most submission limits (including social posts and meta descriptions) actually measure, and without spaces for character-based pricing such as translation quotes. Sentences are detected by ending punctuation, paragraphs by blank lines, so dialogue-heavy and list-heavy text can shift the sentence count slightly; treat it as a close estimate. Reading time uses an average silent-reading speed of about 200 words per minute, and speaking time uses roughly 130 words per minute, the comfortable pace for podcasts, speeches and video narration. A 1,300-word script is therefore about a 10-minute talk. Everything runs in your browser: your text is never uploaded, stored or sent to a server, which makes the tool safe for unpublished drafts and sensitive documents.