Word and character counter

Count words, visible characters, bytes and selected text. Estimate reading time at your chosen speed.

Your text

Word segmentation locale

Language tag, for example en, zh, or ar.

Reading speed, words per minute

Words

Visible characters

Without whitespace

Reading estimate

1 sec

Technical counts

UTF-16 code units: 11
UTF-8 bytes: 11
Content lines: 1
Paragraphs: 1

What counts as a character?

A visible character can contain several Unicode code points. A family emoji is one grapheme but takes multiple UTF-16 code units and UTF-8 bytes. Reading time uses your chosen speed and is an estimate. Blank text has zero content lines.

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