Word Counter gives you a live breakdown of your text statistics as you type. See word count, character count (with and without spaces), sentence count, paragraph count, unique word count, and estimated reading time at 200 words per minute. All processing runs locally in your browser.
Reading time is estimated at 200 words per minute, a commonly used average for careful reading. The result is rounded up to the nearest minute.
Sentences are counted by detecting terminal punctuation (., !, ?). Informal text without punctuation may be counted as a single sentence.
Unique words are counted case-insensitively after splitting on whitespace and stripping surrounding punctuation, so 'Word' and 'word.' count as the same unique word.
Both are shown — total character count including spaces, and a separate count excluding spaces, so you can match whichever limit you're working against.
Yes — the live character count updates as you type, useful for checking against limits like tweet length, meta description length, or form field maximums.
Paragraphs are counted as blocks of text separated by one or more blank lines.
Pasted text is treated as plain text — formatting like bold or italics doesn't affect counts, but invisible characters or extra line breaks from the source document might.
