Text & writing

Word Counter

Count words, characters, sentences and estimated reading time in your text.

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About this tool

Check the length of a draft, caption or document before you publish it. Counts update when you run the tool, with separate totals for characters, words and paragraphs. Reading time uses an estimate of 200 words per minute.

How to use it

  1. 1

    Paste your draft into the text area.

  2. 2

    Choose Count text to calculate the totals.

  3. 3

    Use the character and word totals for your publishing limit.

Questions, answered

How are words counted?

Letter and number sequences count as words. Apostrophes inside words are retained, while punctuation and hyphens separate words. Languages without spaces may require a language-specific counter.

What does the character count include?

Characters are Unicode code points, including spaces and line breaks. A combined emoji can contain more than one code point. Reading time and sentence counts are estimates.