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Word & Character Counter

Paste or type, and watch the numbers. Words, characters, sentences, paragraphs, reading time — plus which words you lean on most. Select part of the text to count just that part.

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Unique words

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Average word length

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Average sentence length

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Longest word

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Words you lean on

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How these are counted

Honesty about method, because every counter disagrees slightly with every other one:

• Words — runs of letters and digits. Hyphens, apostrophes and decimal points stay inside a word, so COVID-19, it's and 3.14 are one word each. In Chinese, Japanese and Korean each character counts as one word, which is the usual convention for those scripts.
• Characters — Unicode code points, so an emoji counts as 1 (some tools say 2). Line breaks are not counted.
• Sentences — a ., !, ? or … followed by a space or the end of a line ends a sentence, so 3.14 doesn't split one. A short list of abbreviations (Mr., Dr., e.g., etc.…) is ignored — which means a sentence that genuinely ends in etc. is undercounted by one. A paragraph with no punctuation at all counts as one sentence. The fullwidth terminators 。 ！ ？ end a sentence without needing a space after them, as is conventional in Chinese and Japanese.
• Reading time — 238 words per minute, the median of the silent reading research. Read aloud — 140 words per minute. Both are averages; your mileage will vary.
• Lines counts hard line breaks, not wrapped display lines.

Word frequency is calculated on the first 500,000 characters of very long texts, to keep typing smooth.