Word Counter – Count Words, Characters & Reading Time

A word counter analyzes your text and tells you how many words it contains. This tool also provides character, sentence, paragraph, reading time, and other text statistics.

Type or paste your text into the word counter. The word count and other statistics update automatically as you edit the text.

Yes. It shows the total number of characters as well as a separate count that excludes spaces and other whitespace.

Yes. The main character count includes spaces and line breaks. The tool also provides a separate character count without spaces.

Yes. You can use it to check the word count of essays, assignments, articles, blog posts, applications, and other types of writing.

Reading time is estimated using an average reading speed of 200 words per minute. The displayed time is rounded up to the nearest minute.

Unique words are the different words that appear in your text after normalizing capitalization and removing punctuation from the beginning and end of words.

No. Text analysis is performed directly in your browser, so your text does not need to be uploaded to a server.