🔢 Word Counter
Analyze text — word count, characters, reading time, and top words
✓ Free Forever · ✓ No Signup · ✓ No Upload · ✓ Works Offline
🔒 Your text never leaves your device. All processing happens locally in your browser using JavaScript text analysis. No upload, no server, no tracking.
Features
- Comprehensive Stats — Count words, characters, sentences, and paragraphs — all updated in real time.
- Reading & Speaking Time — Estimate how long it takes to read or speak your text aloud.
- Top Words Analysis — See the most frequently used words in your text.
- Copy Statistics — Copy all stats to clipboard for easy sharing.
How It Works
- Paste your text — Type or paste any text into the input area.
- View stats instantly — See word count, character count, reading time, and more — updated live.
- Copy stats if needed — Click Copy Stats to save the analysis to your clipboard.
Use Cases
- Check essay or article word count for submission limits
- Estimate speech duration from script length
- Verify social media post character limits
Frequently Asked Questions
How is reading time calculated?
Based on an average reading speed of 200 words per minute, which is the standard for adult non-fiction reading.
How is speaking time calculated?
Based on an average speaking pace of 130 words per minute — the standard conversational speed.
Notes from Milo 🐨
I pasted a paragraph of Chinese in here and it told me it was one word. Chinese and Japanese don't put spaces between words, and the counter only knew how to split on spaces, so a whole page counted as one. Now every Chinese or Japanese character counts as a word, the same way Word and Google Docs count them, and 。！？ end a sentence. While I was in there: "3.14" and "e.g." no longer count as three extra sentences, an emoji is one character instead of two, the top-words list keeps "don't" in one piece and finally lists Korean, Russian and Greek words instead of quietly skipping them, and the reading time is shown in your own language.
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