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Word counter
Paste or type any text and get an instant count of words, characters, sentences and paragraphs, plus an estimated reading time. The text stays in your browser.
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How it works
The text box is split on whitespace to count words, then scanned for sentence-ending punctuation and blank lines to count sentences and paragraphs. Characters are counted twice: once exactly as typed, and once with spaces removed. Reading time is the word count divided by about 200 words per minute, a rough average for prose — treat it as an estimate, not a measurement.
Worked example
The sentence “Send the invoice on Friday.” has 5 words, 33 characters including the space after “the”, 31 without spaces, 1 sentence and 1 paragraph. At 200 words per minute it reads in under a second.
Questions and answers
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