Measure your text as you write: words, visible characters, paragraphs and estimated reading time.
Limit: 1 MiB (1,048,576 UTF-8 bytes). Accented letters and emoji can use more than one byte.
Reading estimate: 200 words per minute, rounded up to the next whole second.
Enter plain text up to 1 MiB in UTF-8, or load the example. Counts update after a brief pause.
Check words, characters with and without whitespace, paragraphs and reading time. A blank line starts another paragraph; a single line break does not.
Copy the localized numbers when analysis finishes. Clear removes the text and returns the metrics to zero.
The family emoji is one grapheme and no word. Spaces and the two line breaks are included in 32 characters. Six words take 1.8 seconds at the assumed speed, rounded up to 2.
Hola món café Grüße 👨👩👧👦 Una idea.
6 words · 32 characters · 25 without whitespace · 2 paragraphs · 2 s
This tool counts graphemes, not UTF-16 units or bytes. Combined emoji and accented letters can produce different results in other counters.
Separate paragraphs with a blank line. A line wrap or a single newline remains in the same paragraph.
The fixed speed is 200 words per minute. Content difficulty and individual reading speed are not measured.
Word boundaries are found with Intl.Segmenter and only word-like segments are counted. Punctuation and emoji alone do not become words. Language rules and browser Unicode versions can explain differences from another editor.
Characters are grapheme clusters: a composed family emoji or an accented letter normally counts as one visible unit. The total includes spaces, tabs and newlines; the second character metric excludes whitespace. This is different from UTF-8 bytes used for the 1 MiB input limit.
Use the counter to check an article, message or draft before sending it. Paragraphs need blank-line separation, and reading time assumes 200 words per minute, rounded up to whole seconds. All analysis stays local; the text is neither saved nor uploaded.
This counter uses the page language and Intl.Segmenter word boundaries. Other editors can split apostrophes, hyphens or punctuation differently; browser Unicode versions may also differ.
With Intl.Segmenter, a joined family emoji is one grapheme. In the visibly marked fallback mode, code points are counted and the same emoji can count as several characters.
Yes, the total includes whitespace. The characters without whitespace metric excludes spaces, tabs and line breaks. A Windows CRLF line break is a single grapheme in normal mode.
Nonempty blocks separated by blank lines are paragraphs. A single newline does not split a paragraph. Reading time is words × 60 ÷ 200, rounded up to whole seconds; zero words gives zero seconds.
The limit is 1 MiB, or 1,048,576 UTF-8 bytes, checked before analysis. Accents and emoji use multiple bytes. The text is processed in a local worker and is not saved or uploaded.