About this Word Counter
This free word counter is a simple, fast, and private tool built for writers, students, bloggers, and SEO professionals. It performs live calculations as you type or paste your text and gives you instant insights that help with editing, meeting word limits, and estimating reading time for your audience.
How it helps
Use the word counter when you need to meet assignment or submission limits, check character counts for social posts, or evaluate reading time for web content. The tool runs entirely in your browser — no server upload — so your text stays on your device. Buttons let you copy text to clipboard, clear the editor, or download your work as a .txt file for quick backups.
Detailed explanation
The counters are implemented using lightweight JavaScript that analyzes the text using regular expressions and simple logic. Word count splits on whitespace and punctuation boundaries to approximate words; character counts are provided both with and without spaces for clarity when platforms impose different limits; sentence detection uses punctuation markers like period, exclamation, and question marks to estimate sentence boundaries; while paragraph count counts newline blocks separated by one or more blank lines.
Reading time is estimated using a conservative average reading speed (200 words per minute), which is useful for planning audio narration length, podcasts, or blog post engagement.