Word & Character Counter

This counter applies a few simple, transparent rules rather than a linguistic model. Words are counted by trimming the text and splitting it on runs of whitespace (spaces, tabs, newlines), so each run of non-space characters is one word — URLs, numbers, emails, and hyphenated terms each count as a single word. Characters is the raw length of the string, including spaces and line breaks; because it counts JavaScript UTF-16 code units, an emoji or other astral-plane character may register as two. Characters-without-spaces strips every whitespace character first. Sentences are found by splitting on runs of . ! or ?, which is a naive heuristic: abbreviations like 'Dr.' and decimals like '3.14' will each be over-counted as sentence breaks. Paragraphs are blocks separated by one or more newlines. Reading time assumes 200 words per minute, a common average for adult silent reading of online prose, and is rounded with a one-minute floor. These metrics are great for quick checks against length limits, but for strict academic or publishing word counts, confirm against the rules your specific style guide or word processor uses.