Counting happens only in your browser, nothing gets uploaded.
Paste text and see right away how many words and characters it has, with and without spaces. Plus sentences, paragraphs, standard pages and reading time. Also works for text in PDF files, free and without signup.
Type or paste text into the field, or open a PDF or TXT file.
Words, characters with and without spaces, sentences, paragraphs, standard pages and reading time appear right away and update as you type.
Pick a limit, say 160 for an SMS or 155 for a description, and see how much room is left.
Term papers, essays and cover letters often come with a word or character limit. Checking as you write means no frantic cutting at the end. It matters whether the limit counts spaces or not, the difference can easily be 15 percent.
Page titles in search results are usually cut off after around 60 characters, descriptions after about 155. Short posts and bios have fixed limits too. The character limit shows you how much room is left while you type.
Translators and editors often bill by the standard page of 1,500 characters including spaces, some by words or lines instead. Before accepting a quote, it helps to check the exact counting method so both sides agree on the same amount.
A five minute speech needs roughly 650 words. The speaking time here is based on 130 words per minute, a calm pace with pauses. Faster speakers need more text, those reading freely usually need less.
The counter uses your browser's word detection for the chosen language. Punctuation does not count as a word, numbers do. Hyphenated words like well-known count as one, abbreviations with a period too. For Japanese, Chinese and Thai, which are written without spaces, the browser finds the word boundaries itself.
Under "Characters", yes, spaces and line breaks are included. "Characters without spaces" leaves out all whitespace. Emoji and accented letters each count as one character, the way you see them.
A standard page is 1,500 characters including spaces. Translators, editors and publishers often bill by it. The counter divides the character count by 1,500 and rounds to one decimal place.
It is a rough guide. It is calculated at 200 words per minute for reading and 130 for reading aloud. Technical texts are read more slowly, light reading faster.
Yes. Open the PDF file, the text gets read in your browser and counted. This works for PDFs with real text. Scanned pages without a text layer have nothing to count, run text recognition (OCR) first in that case.
No. Counting happens only in your browser, your text and files never leave your device.
