What is the Word & Character Counter?
This free tool counts words, characters, sentences and paragraphs as you type. It is useful for essays, tweets, meta descriptions, SMS messages and any text with a strict length limit.
How to use it
- Type or paste text into the box.
- Watch the metrics update instantly above.
- Use the reading-time estimate to gauge how long the text takes to read.
How the counts work
Words are detected by splitting on whitespace, sentences by punctuation marks (. ! ?), and paragraphs by line breaks.