Word Counter

Count words, characters, sentences, paragraphs and reading time with our free online word counter tool.

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Word Counter Statistics

How Word Counter works

Count whitespace-separated words, Unicode code points, sentence fragments and nonempty paragraphs.

Steps

Paste text and inspect counts before copying the statistics or clearing the field.

Example to check

Text containing only whitespace produces zero words, zero sentences and zero nonempty paragraphs.

Limits and review

Punctuation splitting is an estimate, not linguistic sentence detection. Languages without word spaces may need a language-aware counter. Reading time uses 200 words per minute. Combined characters can contain several code points.

Where your data goes

Your selected files and entered content are processed in your browser. Processing does not upload them to a conversion, QR or AI API. The site serves the scripts, fonts and any OCR models needed for the task.

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Practice: check a short brief

Try Write one clear sentence. Then another!. This is six whitespace-separated words and two text segments counted as sentences by the tool. Now insert extra spaces: the word count should stay the same. If the text is a list of abbreviations such as Dr. A., punctuation can create extra sentence fragments; review that estimate before reporting it as a linguistic sentence count.

Reading-time interpretation

The time displayed by this tool uses an assumed reading pace of 200 words per minute and rounds up to whole minutes. This is a planning estimate, not an accessibility measurement. Technical manuals, unfamiliar terminology and reading disabilities can change actual reading speed substantially.

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