02 / MEASURE
Word & character counter.
Count words, characters and paragraphs, with an adjustable reading-time estimate.
USING THE TOOL
Word & character counter, explained.
- Paste the text you want to measure.
- Select its language and your preferred reading speed.
- Count the text to see words, characters, paragraphs and a reading estimate.
Words and character clusters use your browser’s Unicode segmentation. Punctuation alone is not a word; numbers can count as words. An emoji family can be one character cluster but several Unicode code points. UTF-16 units and UTF-8 bytes are reported separately because websites count length differently. Reading time is a simple estimate, not a language-specific assessment.
Why does another counter show a different result?
Counters use different rules for hyphens, apostrophes, emoji and languages without spaces. Choose the correct language and use the measurement required by your destination.
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