Word Counter

Counts that match how the text will be judged

A limit on a social post is usually characters. A school assignment is usually words. A subtitle file is lines. This page shows all of them while you type, so you do not have to guess which number a form will use. It is separate from the character frequency counter, which breaks the text down letter by letter.

How the numbers are defined

• Characters are Unicode code points. An emoji counts as one, not as the two UTF-16 units some editors show. Spaces are included. “Characters without spaces” removes every whitespace character, including line breaks and full-width spaces.
• Words, by default, are chunks separated by whitespace. well-known is one word. That matches English and most European languages, and it under-counts Chinese, Japanese and Korean, which do not put spaces between words.
• Turn on “Count each Chinese, Japanese or Korean character as a word” when you are measuring 字数. Latin words in the same paragraph are still counted as whole words, so a mixed sentence is not split into single letters.
• Sentences end on . ! ? and on 。！？. Abbreviations such as “Dr.” will look like a sentence end. Treat the sentence count as a guide.
• Paragraphs are blocks separated by a blank line. Lines are split on any newline, including empty ones.
• Reading time uses about 200 words a minute for spaced languages and about 400 characters a minute for Chinese, Japanese and Korean. Speaking time is a little slower. Both are estimates, not a stopwatch.

How to use it

1. Paste or type. The cards update immediately.
2. For a Chinese essay, a Japanese article, or Korean copy, enable the CJK option before you compare the number with a 字数 limit.
3. Copy or download the summary if you need to attach the counts to a draft.
4. If you need a URL from the title afterwards, use the slug generator.

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