Word Counter

How to use it

1. Paste or type any text.
2. Watch the live counters: characters (code points), words, lines, sentences, paragraphs.
3. The reading-time estimate assumes ~200 words per minute and treats CJK characters with an equivalent weighting.

Common use cases

• Essay and article quotas — a school or CMS word limit is rarely about counting every space.
• Chinese/Japanese writing — 中文 text is not one word; the counter separates CJK characters so the total reflects the real reading load.
• Social captions — hit the exact character budget for a bio, SMS, or platform caption.

FAQ

Q: How is a "word" counted in Chinese? A: Latin words are counted normally; CJK characters are weighted (~1.6 characters per word) so mixed Chinese–English text gives a sensible single number rather than treating an entire paragraph as one word.

Q: Does "characters" include spaces? A: The character count counts code points, so spaces and punctuation are included. Line, sentence and paragraph counts give you the structural picture.

Q: What counts as a sentence? A: Text terminated by ., !, ?, 。, ！, ？ or an ellipsis. A paragraph without punctuation still counts as one sentence.