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Word & Character Counters

Count words, characters, sentences and syllables, and work out reading time and page count.

Word CounterCount words, characters, sentences and paragraphs as you type. Also shows reading time and your most used words.Character CounterCount characters with and without spaces. Emoji and accented letters count as one character.Sentence CounterCount sentences and see the length of each one. Abbreviations like “Dr.” and “e.g.” are handled correctly.Line & Paragraph CounterCount paragraphs, lines and blank lines, and see how long each paragraph is.Reading Time CalculatorFind out how long a text takes to read. Paste the text or type a word count.Speaking Time CalculatorFind out how long a speech or script takes to say out loud, and how many words fit your time slot.Syllable CounterCount syllables in words and lines. Includes a haiku (5-7-5) checker.Word Frequency CounterSee which words and phrases you use most often. Export the list as CSV.Lexical Diversity CalculatorMeasure how varied your vocabulary is with type-token ratio and MTLD.Letter Frequency CounterCount how often each letter appears and compare it with normal English.Text Size & Byte CounterSee the size of your text in bytes (UTF-8, UTF-16 and UTF-32) and its string length.Words to Pages CalculatorEstimate how many pages your text fills for a given font, size, spacing and margin.Document Word CounterCount words in Word, PDF and text files. Add several files at once and see the totals.

Counting done carefully

Counting sounds trivial until you meet hyphenated words, em dashes, emoji, Chinese text and abbreviations that end in full stops. Every counter here uses the same Unicode-aware engine: words are whitespace-separated tokens containing a letter or digit (the word-processor convention), languages written without spaces are segmented with the browser’s dictionary, characters are counted as the grapheme clusters people actually see, and sentence detection understands “Dr.”, “e.g.” and decimals. Read how word counters count for the details.

Questions

Which word counter is the most accurate?

Counts differ because tools make different choices about hyphens, dashes, numbers and languages without spaces. The Word Counter follows the word-processor convention (space-separated tokens with a letter or digit) and uses Unicode dictionary segmentation for Chinese, Japanese and Thai. The guide How Word Counters Count, and Why They Disagree explains the differences.

How do I count words in a PDF or Word file?

Use the Document Word Counter. It reads DOCX, PDF, ODT, TXT, Markdown and HTML files in your browser and totals several files at once.

How long will my text take to read or present?

The Reading Time Calculator uses research-based reading speeds (238 wpm for non-fiction); the Speaking Time Calculator estimates speeches and scripts at the pace you choose.