Word Counter

A word counter measures the basic statistics of a piece of text — how many words, characters, sentences, and paragraphs it contains — plus derived measures like reading time and readability scores. Writers use them to hit length targets (a 500-word blog post, a 280-character tweet, a 150–160 character meta description), editors use them to track scope, students use them to satisfy word-count requirements, and SEO teams use them to gauge keyword density. The math gets interesting on derived measures: reading time depends on words-per-minute (200–250 for adults silently), Flesch reading-ease scores readability from 0–100 based on sentence length and syllable count, and keyword density flags overused terms. This counter computes all of them live as you type. Need a different shape of word stats? Try the Word Frequency Counter. Estimating audio duration? Use the Reading Time Calculator.