Word Counter and Character Counter

Anything separated by spaces or line breaks counts as one word, which is how a word processor counts. A hyphenated term such as well-known is one word, and so is a contraction such as don't.

Most counters report UTF-16 code units, so an emoji counts as two and an accented letter can count as two. This one counts what you actually see, so an emoji is one character. The difference only shows up on emoji, accents and non-Latin scripts.

Words divided by 225 a minute for reading and 130 a minute for speaking. Those are averages for prose, so treat them as an estimate: dense technical text reads slower and dialogue reads faster.

It shows which terms you repeat most, as a share of the whole text. It is useful for spotting a page that says nothing about its own topic, and for catching the opposite problem of repeating one phrase so often the writing reads as spam.

No. Everything is counted inside this tab, so the text never leaves your browser and the tool keeps working offline once the page has loaded.