Word Counter

Features

• Live counts as you type, no button to press
• Words, characters, characters without spaces, sentences, paragraphs
• Reading and speaking time estimates
• Keyword density table with stop-word filtering
• Handles accented and non-Latin text correctly

How to use it

1. Paste or type your text into the box.
2. Every statistic updates immediately.
3. Scroll down for the keyword frequency table.
4. Press Copy statistics to take the numbers with you.

How the counts are calculated

Word counting sounds trivial until you try to define a word. This tool matches runs of letters, digits, apostrophes and hyphens using Unicode-aware patterns, so don't counts as one word rather than two, and well-known stays a single hyphenated word. Accented Latin, Cyrillic and Greek text all count correctly, which naive whitespace-splitting gets wrong for languages that use different spacing conventions.

Reading time uses 225 words per minute, which sits in the middle of the range most studies report for adults reading non-technical prose silently. Speaking time uses 150 words per minute, roughly the pace of clear presentation delivery. Both are estimates, dense technical material reads considerably slower, and your own pace may differ by 30% in either direction.

The density table strips around 40 English stop words such as the, and and of before ranking, because otherwise those would occupy every top slot and tell you nothing. Density percentages are calculated against the total word count including stop words, which is the convention most SEO tools follow.