Word & Character Counter

This free word counter and character counter gives you instant, accurate counts the moment you paste or type. If you need to count words online for an essay, a blog post, a college application, or a social media caption, just drop your text in the box above and watch the word count, character count, sentence count, and paragraph count update live. There is no signup, no upload, and nothing leaves your device - the whole tool runs in your browser, so your writing stays private.

Beyond a basic letter counter, this word count tool estimates how long your text takes to read and to say out loud. The reading time calculator assumes an average silent reading speed of about 225 words per minute, while the speaking time uses roughly 130 words per minute. That makes it a handy words to minutes converter for planning a presentation, a podcast script, a YouTube video, or a wedding speech - paste your draft and you instantly know whether you are over or under your time limit.

The built-in sentence counter and paragraph counter help you check structure and pacing, while the keyword density table shows which words you lean on most. By lowercasing your text, stripping punctuation, and removing common stopwords, it surfaces the terms that actually carry meaning - perfect for tightening SEO copy so your target keyword appears naturally without keyword stuffing. You also get the average word length and your longest word, two quick signals of readability.

Writers, students, marketers, and developers all rely on a dependable character count. Tweets, meta descriptions, ad headlines, and form fields are limited by characters rather than words, which is why this tool shows both character count with spaces and without spaces next to the word count. When you are done counting, clean up messy copy with our AI text cleaner or estimate model usage for your prompts with the LLM token counter.