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Word & Reading Time Counter

Count words, characters, sentences and paragraphs, and estimate reading time as you write.

Count your text

Your textCounted locally as you type. No text is uploaded.

0Words

0Characters

0Characters without spaces

0End-punctuation groups

0Paragraphs

0 minEstimated reading time

Helpful context

How does reading time work?

The estimate divides the whitespace-based word count by 225 words per minute, rounded up to whole minutes. People read at different speeds.

Does this count linguistic words in every language?

No. Languages without whitespace word boundaries need more specialised segmentation. Sentence count uses punctuation groups and is an approximation.

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