📝 Word Counter
Paste or type your text, get live word, character, sentence and reading time stats.
The Word Counter is a real-time text analysis tool that goes beyond a simple word count. As you type or paste text, it simultaneously tracks words, characters, characters without spaces, sentences, paragraphs, lines, estimated reading time and estimated speaking time. All metrics update instantly with every keystroke.
The reading time estimate is based on an average silent reading speed of 238 words per minute, while the speaking time estimate uses 130 words per minute, a standard conversational speaking pace. These estimates are useful when preparing presentations, writing scripts for videos, composing emails with length constraints, or checking that documentation fits within a target reading time.
The keyword frequency section analyses word usage and surfaces the most common meaningful words, filtering out common stop words like "the", "and", "is", so you can see which terms are being emphasised in a piece of text. This is useful for checking that technical documentation uses consistent terminology, or for quickly getting a sense of a document's main topics without reading it in full.