Word counter
Paste or type, and the counts update on every keystroke. Nothing is sent anywhere.
Reading time is at 200 words a minute, which is an ordinary adult reading pace for something they are not studying.
- Words
- 0
- Characters
- 0
- Characters without spaces
- 0
- Sentences
- 0
- Paragraphs
- 0
Nothing to read yet, at 200 words a minute.
Questions
- Is my text sent anywhere?
- No. Every count and every conversion happens in this page as you type. There is no server here that could receive what you paste, and you can check it in your browser's network tab: typing produces no requests at all.
- How is a word counted?
- As a run of characters with whitespace on either side. That is the right model for English, Urdu, Arabic and every European language. It is not right for Chinese or Japanese, which do not put spaces between words: those come out as very few very long words, and the character count is the number to use there instead.
- How is a sentence counted?
- By counting the pieces between sentence-ending punctuation. That includes the Urdu full stop and question mark, the Devanagari danda and the ideographic full stop, not only the Latin three. Without those, a paragraph of Urdu would count as one sentence.
- Why does an emoji count as one character?
- Because that is what it looks like. Internally a thumbs-up is two units and a family emoji is several, so a naive count reports more characters than you can see. The count here groups by what renders as a single character.