Word & Character Counter
Paste or type your text to get live word count, character count, sentence count, paragraph count, and reading time estimate — all updating in real time.
About This Tool
This word counter online is a real-time text analysis tool that gives writers, bloggers, developers, and students instant feedback on their text. Unlike simple character counters, this tool provides six key metrics simultaneously: word count, total character count (including spaces), character count excluding spaces, sentence count, paragraph count, and estimated reading time.
Reading time is calculated at a standard adult reading pace of 200 words per minute, giving you a quick sense of how long your content will take to consume. This is especially useful for blog posts, documentation, email newsletters, and social media content where length limits matter.
The Highlight Repeated Words feature is a bonus writing aid — it visually marks words you have used more than once, helping you spot redundancy and improve your vocabulary diversity. This is useful for polishing essays, cover letters, or marketing copy.
All processing happens instantly in your browser. There is no character limit, no account required, and your text never leaves your device.
How to Use
- Type or paste your text into the text area.
- All six statistics update automatically as you type — no button needed.
- Click Clear to reset the text area and all counts.
- Enable Highlight repeated words to see a color-highlighted preview below the text area where repeated words (3+ letters) are marked.
Statistics Explained
- Words: sequences of non-whitespace characters separated by spaces
- Characters: total number of characters including spaces and line breaks
- No Spaces: characters after removing all whitespace
- Sentences: text segments ending in a period, exclamation mark, or question mark
- Paragraphs: blocks of text separated by one or more blank lines
- Read Time: estimated at 200 words per minute (average adult reading speed)