Word & Character Counter

About this tool

See the number of words, characters, sentences and paragraphs in your text as you type, plus the reading time and how close you are to the limit for a post on X. Use it for essays, articles, meta descriptions, captions and cover letters.

Everything runs in your browser. Your text is never sent to a server.

How it works

• Words are runs of letters and digits, so don't and well-known each count as one word. A number such as 3.14 or 1,000 is one word. In Chinese, Japanese, Korean and Thai, which are written without spaces, your browser's word segmentation is used when it is available; treat the word count for those languages as approximate and rely on the character count.
• Characters counts what a person sees as one character, so an emoji or a letter with an accent counts once. Spaces and line breaks are included; the "no spaces" figure leaves them out. Bytes is the size in UTF-8, which matters for database and SMS limits.
• Sentences end at a period, exclamation mark, question mark or ellipsis followed by a space or the end of the text, so abbreviations such as "e.g." can add a few. Paragraphs are blocks separated by a blank line.
• Reading time assumes 225 words per minute, and speaking time 130 words per minute. These are averages; people vary.
• X posts are measured the way X does: most Latin letters, digits and punctuation count 1, most other characters (CJK, emoji) count 2, and every link counts as 23 however long it is. Only links that start with http:// or https:// are recognized here. X's rules can change, so treat this as a close estimate.

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