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Count words, characters, sentences, paragraphs, and reading time instantly.
The Word & Character Counter measures a block of text ten ways at once — words, characters with and without spaces, sentences, paragraphs, lines, average word length, longest word, and reading and speaking time at 225 and 150 words per minute. Paste a draft and every figure updates as you type, alongside the eight most repeated meaningful terms with their counts. The whole set can be copied as a summary or downloaded as a text report with the source text attached.
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Reading time uses 225 words per minute and speaking time uses 150, so a script and an article get different, realistic estimates.
Sentence, paragraph, line, average word length and longest word are shown together, which is what tells you a paragraph has run long.
Top terms skip words under three letters and a stoplist of 22 common words like the, and, with and your, so only real repetition surfaces.
Word count divided by 225 words per minute, rounded up, with a floor of 1 minute. Speaking time uses 150 words per minute on the same rule — 225 wpm is a common silent-reading average for adult prose, and 150 wpm reflects a comfortable presentation pace.
Anything matching a run of letters, digits, apostrophes or hyphens between word boundaries, so "self-driving" and "don't" each count as one word. Characters, by contrast, count every keystroke including spaces and line breaks, and the no-spaces figure strips all whitespace.
Sentences are split on periods, exclamation marks and question marks, so an abbreviation like "e.g." or a decimal such as 3.5 will inflate the count, while a sentence ending in a semicolon or a dash will not be counted separately. Treat the number as a close estimate for pacing rather than a strict grammatical parse.
No. Counting runs in the page as you type, and the downloaded report is generated from a local blob, so the draft never leaves the browser — which makes it safe for unpublished or confidential copy.