Word Counter
Count words, characters, sentences, paragraphs and reading time as you type — free and entirely inside your browser
- Words
- 0
- Characters
- 0
- Characters, no spaces
- 0
- Sentences
- 0
- Paragraphs
- 0
- Lines
- 0
- Reading time
- —
- Speaking time
- —
- Longest word
- 0
- UTF-16 units
- 0
- Arabic diacritics
- 0
🔒 Your text never leaves the browser — not one character is sent anywhere, and nothing is stored
How to use it
- Paste or type your textThe box starts counting from the first character — there is no button to press and nothing to wait for.
- Watch the figures updateWords, characters, sentences, paragraphs and reading time all change with every keystroke.
- Check the numbers that matter for your scriptThe diacritics cell appears when your text is vocalised — it is the gap between what you see and what a platform measures.
- Copy when you are doneCopy returns the whole text; Clear empties the box and touches nothing else.
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Frequently Asked Questions
How exactly do you count a word?
Any run of characters between whitespace that contains at least one letter or digit is one word. So "state-of-the-art" is one word and a lone dash between two clauses is none. We picked that rule because it is the one you can verify by counting with your eyes — and for Arabic it is also simply correct, since Arabic words are separated by spaces and nothing else.
Why is your character count lower than the one I get elsewhere?
Because we count the characters you can see, not the code units behind them. The Arabic word سَلام is four characters to a reader and five to String.length, because the fatha is a separate code point; an emoji family is one character and eight code units. Both numbers are shown: "Characters" is what is on screen, "UTF-16 units" is what a form validator or a database column will actually enforce. A counter that reports only one of them is wrong for somebody.
Do Arabic diacritics add to the character count?
No. Tashkeel marks are combining marks drawn above or below a letter, so they do not add to the characters you see — but they do add to the length platforms measure. That is why the count appears in its own cell, and only when your text actually carries diacritics, rather than sitting on every English page reading zero.
How are sentences counted?
By terminator: full stop, exclamation mark, and both the Latin and Arabic question marks. That rule has a known failure — "Dr. Smith" counts as two sentences — and we would rather say so than pretend the number is exact. It is a good indicator of your average sentence length, not a linguistic truth.
What is the reading time based on?
200 words per minute for silent reading and 130 for reading aloud. These are averages from readability research, not a measurement of you — your speed changes with the subject and with how tired you are. Use it to size an article or a script, nothing more.
Is my text uploaded anywhere?
No, not one character. The whole tool runs inside your browser — nothing is sent, nothing is stored, nothing is read. Turn off your connection and try it: it still works.