Word Counter

The Number Every Writer Needs Before Hitting Publish

You've just finished a blog post. But is it 1,200 words or 1,800? Does your meta description hit the 160-character wall? Is the LinkedIn caption you wrote going to get cut off at 125 characters before the "...more"?

Guessing isn't good enough when platform limits are exact and essay requirements are graded. This Word Counter gives you live, real-time counts as you type — words, characters (with and without spaces), sentences, paragraphs, and reading time — with no upload, no wait, and no character cap of its own.

How Word and Character Counting Works

Every stat this tool shows is calculated in your browser using JavaScript text processing:

Word Count: The input text is trimmed and split on whitespace using text.trim().split(/\s+/). Each continuous block of non-whitespace characters — including numbers, hyphenated phrases, contractions, and email addresses — counts as exactly one word.

Character Count (with spaces): Simply text.length. Counts every character including spaces, punctuation, emoji, and line breaks.

Character Count (without spaces): text.replace(/\s/g, '').length — strips all whitespace first, then measures.

Sentence Count: Text is split on ., !, and ? using text.split(/[.!?]+/). Filtered to remove empty segments from double-punctuation. Limitation: abbreviations like "Dr." and "e.g." are counted as sentence breaks.

Paragraph Count: Paragraphs split on consecutive newlines text.split(/\n+/). Multiple blank lines between sections count as one separator.

Reading Time: Based on the well-researched average adult silent reading speed of 238 words per minute — the midpoint of the commonly cited 200–275 WPM range. Formula: Math.ceil(wordCount / 238) minutes.

All calculations run in the browser's main thread — instant for any text up to tens of thousands of words.

Platform Character Limits Reference Table