Word Count

Type or paste a text, or open a file, and the counter updates with every keystroke. You see the number of words and unique words, characters with and without spaces, sentences and paragraphs, the average number of words per sentence and the length of the longest sentence. The reading time assumes 238 words per minute, the average speed of silent reading, and the speaking time 150 words per minute, the pace of a calm talk or presentation. Select part of the text to see how many words and characters it has.

“Top keywords” lists the words that appear most often, or the most frequent phrases of two or three words, which helps to spot repetitions and to check the keywords of an article. With “Ignore common words”, short words such as the, and or of are left out. Words are counted correctly in every language, including Chinese, Japanese and Thai, which are written without spaces. A file can be up to 20 MB, in a format such as .txt, .md, .csv, .html or .srt. Everything is counted in your browser, and the text is never uploaded.