Word & Character Counter
Count words, characters, sentences, and calculate reading time instantly.
📖 How It Works
Simply start typing or paste your text into the text area above. All statistics update in real-time as you type. The tool analyzes your text for:
- Word Count: Total number of words separated by spaces
- Character Count: Total characters including spaces and punctuation
- Reading Time: Based on average reading speed of 200 words/minute
- Speaking Time: Based on average speaking speed of 150 words/minute
- Sentences: Counted by periods, question marks, and exclamation points
- Paragraphs: Separated by blank lines or line breaks
- Top Keywords: Most frequently used words (excluding common stop words)
📱 Mobile Friendly: This tool works perfectly on phones and tablets. Great for checking your Instagram captions, tweets, or LinkedIn posts on the go!
🎯 Common Character Limits
- Twitter/X: 280 characters
- Instagram Bio: 150 characters
- Instagram Caption: 2,200 characters
- Facebook Post: 63,206 characters
- LinkedIn Post: 3,000 characters
- YouTube Title: 100 characters
- Google Meta Description: 155-160 characters
- SMS Message: 160 characters
❓ Frequently Asked Questions
Reading time is calculated based on an average reading speed of 200 words per minute for adult readers. Speaking time uses 150 words per minute, which is typical for presentations.
A word is any sequence of characters separated by whitespace. Hyphenated words like "well-known" count as one word. Numbers are also counted as words.
Keywords are extracted by counting word frequency and filtering out common stop words (the, a, an, is, etc.). The top 10 most frequent meaningful words are displayed.