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Word counter

Count words, characters, lines, and estimate reading time. Nothing is uploaded.

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How to use Word counter

  1. 1. Paste text. Or drop a file.
  2. 2. Read the tiles. Words, chars, lines, sentences.
  3. 3. Reading time. Assumes 200 wpm English prose.
  4. 4. Copy the source. Stats are live.

About this tool

Editors lie about counts depending on how they split words. This uses whitespace-separated tokens, which matches most CMS counters.

CJK

Languages without spaces will under-count 'words'.

Sentences

A rough [.!? ] split, not a linguistic parser.

Code examples

Idea

text.trim().split(/\s+/).length

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