Paste or type text below to instantly count words, characters, sentences, and estimate reading time.
Paste or type your text into the editor above. Statistics are calculated in real time as you type — no button click required. The word counter splits your text by whitespace, counts characters with and without spaces, detects sentence boundaries using punctuation, and estimates reading time based on an average reading speed of 200 words per minute. If you have HTML content and want to count words without counting the tags, use our HTML to text converter first to strip the markup. Writing in Markdown? Use our markdown editor online which shows a live word count as you write.