Count words, characters, sentences, and estimated reading time. Runs entirely in your browser.
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Report a problemBased on an average adult silent reading speed of about 200 words per minute, rounded up to the nearest whole minute.
Both are shown — one count includes spaces and punctuation, and a separate "characters (no spaces)" count excludes all whitespace.
By counting groups of text ending in ".", "!", or "?" — it's not a perfect linguistic parser (so "Mr. Smith" is counted as ending a sentence), but it matches how most word-count tools handle this.
Character counts work for any language, including Korean and other non-Latin scripts. Word counts split on whitespace, which works well for English but is less precise for languages like Korean that don't always use spaces between words.