Word counter and character counter

Paste or type text and the counts update immediately: words, characters with and without spaces, sentences, paragraphs and lines, plus how long the text takes to read silently and to say aloud. Use it for essays with a word limit, meta descriptions and social posts with a character limit, or a talk that has to fit a time slot.

Words are counted as runs of Unicode letters and digits, so Arabic words with tashkeel or tatweel count as one word each, and "don't" or "state-of-the-art" count as one. Characters are counted as the letters you see (grapheme clusters), so an emoji or a letter with its diacritic mark counts once. Languages written without spaces, such as Chinese or Japanese, are counted in runs rather than words.

Reading time uses 238 words per minute, the average adult silent reading rate for non-fiction found by Brysbaert's 2019 meta-analysis of 190 studies; speaking time uses 150 words per minute, a typical presentation pace. The keyword table shows the 10 most frequent words and their share of all words, leaving out common English and Arabic function words (the, and, في, من) unless you switch that off.