Word Counter and Text Statistics

This tool counts the parts of a text. It gives the word count, the sentence count, the paragraph count, and the size in UTF-8 bytes.

Counting rules: Sentences end with a period, exclamation mark, or question mark. Words are whitespace-separated tokens. Lines count at each newline character. Paragraphs separate at a blank line.

Graphemes are user-perceived characters. An emoji such as a family sequence counts as one grapheme but many code points. The grapheme count uses Intl.Segmenter and matches what a user sees on screen.

The limit presets show progress bars for Twitter/X (280), meta description (160), and SMS (160) character limits. Grapheme count is used, which matches most platform counting rules.

The reading time uses 200 words per minute. The speaking time uses 130 words per minute.

The byte count is not the character count. An emoji or an accented letter uses more than one byte, which matters for a database column limit or an SMS message.