Word Counter

How to use the word counter

1. Type or paste your text into the box.
2. Read the counts in the panel; they update instantly.
3. Check the keyword list to spot words you repeat too often.
4. Use Copy or Download to take a cleaned copy, or Reset to start again.

How it works

The counting rules are fixed and documented so results are predictable:

• Words: a run of letters or digits in any script. Apostrophes, hyphens and number separators inside a word keep it together, so don't, well-known and 3.14 each count once.
• Chinese and Japanese: these scripts do not use spaces, so each Han, Hiragana or Katakana character counts as one word — the same convention most word processors use. Korean is spaced and counted like English.
• Characters: what you see as one character counts as one, even if it is stored as several code points (for example an accented letter or an emoji with a skin tone).
• Sentences: end at . ! ? followed by a space or the end, or at CJK full stops 。！？.
• Paragraphs: every non-empty line.
• Reading time uses 238 words per minute, the average silent reading rate for non-fiction found in a 2019 meta-analysis by Brysbaert; speaking time uses 140 words per minute, a typical presentation pace.

Worked example

“Toolverse runs locally. Nothing is uploaded!” has 6 words, 2 sentences, 1 paragraph, 44 characters with spaces and 39 without. At 238 wpm it takes about 2 seconds to read.

Limitations

• Abbreviations like “Dr.” or “e.g.” followed by a space are counted as sentence ends.
• Each CJK character is counted as one word, which differs from linguistic word segmentation.
• The keyword list ignores common English stop words only; other languages show all words.
• Very long texts (several megabytes) may make typing feel slow on older devices.

Frequently asked questions