Text Statistics
Type or paste text below to count characters, words, sentences, and more, live. Everything runs in your browser.
How to count your text
- Type or paste your text into the Text box.
- Read the counts, which update live: characters, characters without spaces, words, sentences, lines, and paragraphs.
- Check the reading-time estimate to gauge how long the text takes to read aloud or skim.
- Edit in place until the counts land where you need them; use Clear to start over.
When to use it
Length limits are everywhere: a tweet, an SEO meta description around 155 characters, a form field, an essay with a word target. Watching the character and word counts update as you type is faster than pasting into a document just to check.
The separate characters-without-spaces count matters when a limit is measured that way, and the paragraph and sentence counts help judge structure while editing. Everything is counted in the browser as you type, so drafts you’d rather not paste elsewhere stay on your device.
Frequently asked questions
Is my text uploaded or saved anywhere?
No. Counting happens entirely in your browser as you type. Your text is never sent to a server or written to storage.
How are words counted?
A word is a run of characters separated by whitespace. The counts update live as you type, with leading and trailing whitespace ignored.
Does an emoji count as one character or two?
One. Characters are counted by Unicode code point, so an emoji or other astral character counts once rather than twice.
What counts as a sentence or a paragraph?
Sentences are counted by terminator characters: period, exclamation mark, question mark, the ellipsis, and their full-width CJK equivalents (。！？). Paragraphs are blocks of text separated by one or more blank lines.
How is the reading time estimated?
From the word count at roughly 200 words per minute, rounded up. It’s an estimate; actual reading speed varies by reader and text.