Count words, characters, sentences, and paragraphs: plus reading time, speaking time, and top keywords. Updates live as you type.
These are widely cited benchmarks for content length across different formats and channels.
Word count is a baseline requirement for most types of writing. Academic assignments specify minimum word counts. SEO best practices recommend 1,500–2,500 words for competitive blog topics. This free word counter updates instantly as you type or paste, showing word count, character count with and without spaces, sentence count, paragraph count, and estimated reading and speaking time: based on average reading speeds of 200 and 130 words per minute respectively.
The tool also surfaces your top keywords by frequency. This is useful for checking whether your primary topic keyword appears often enough: a target keyword appearing fewer than 3 times in a 1,000-word article may signal insufficient topic coverage to Google. Unique word count gives a quick sense of vocabulary range, where a higher ratio of unique to total words generally indicates richer, more varied writing. All analysis runs entirely in your browser.
Based on an average silent reading speed of 200 words per minute. Speaking time uses 130 words per minute, the average conversational pace. Both are estimates: actual times vary by text complexity and reader familiarity with the topic.
Any sequence of characters separated by whitespace. Hyphenated compounds like "well-known" count as one word. Numbers count as words. Punctuation attached to a word does not count separately.
Long-form content of 1,500–2,500 words consistently outperforms shorter posts on competitive keywords. However, word count is not a direct ranking signal: depth, usefulness, and E-E-A-T quality matter more than raw length.
No. All counting runs locally in your browser. Nothing is transmitted to a server at any point.
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