Counters & analysis
Word and character counter
Live counts for characters (with and without spaces), words, sentences, lines, UTF-8 bytes, and an estimated reading time.
Processed in your browser — nothing is uploaded
Counts belong next to the draft, not in a form that ships your prose to a server. This counter updates as you type and never stores the document.
If extra spaces are inflating the number, run Remove whitespace first. To change wording in bulk, open Find and replace.
Last reviewed 2026-09-10.
FAQ
Questions, answered
How are words counted?
A word is a run of letters that may include digits, apostrophes, or hyphens. Punctuation-only tokens are ignored.
How are sentences counted?
Segments ending in a period, question mark, exclamation point, or ellipsis — plus a final fragment if the text does not end in punctuation.
What is reading time based on?
An average of 200 words per minute, rounded up to a whole minute when there is any text.
Why show bytes?
Character count is not the same as payload size. Emoji and non-Latin letters can occupy multiple UTF-8 bytes.
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