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Word Counter and Character Count

Paste your text, press the button, and seven numbers come back: words, characters as you see them, characters without spaces, UTF-16 units, sentences, paragraphs and lines. The counting happens inside this page, so a long chapter costs your phone a moment and costs your data nothing.

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Word splits on spaces alone, so 6 + 3 is three words. Google Docs also splits at a full stop, comma, slash, colon, question mark or equals, so the same sum is two — and 4,192 is two.

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The saved .txt lists the words and phrases you used most. Choosing a language drops that language's filler out of the table; Off leaves the table out of the file altogether.

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Reading and speaking speed
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238 and 183 words a minute are the measured averages from a meta-analysis of 190 reading studies, not the round 200 and 130 most counters use. Change them to time a speech at your own pace.

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How to word counter and character count

  1. Paste or type your text into the box — English, Hindi, or the two mixed together.
  2. Press Count the words.
  3. Read the row the form actually asked for: characters and characters without spaces are usually different numbers.
  4. Press Save the file if you want the whole set of numbers as a plain .txt.

Which "character" did the form mean?

You get three character numbers because three exist. Characters counts what your eye counts: one emoji is one, and so is a Devanagari conjunct. Characters without spaces drops the gaps. UTF-16 units is what the code behind a form counts, and it is the one that jumps when you type an emoji or a Hindi letter with a matra hanging off it.

When a box says maximum 500 characters and refuses a paragraph you can see is shorter than that, the third number is nearly always the reason. Paste the paragraph here, compare the three, and trim against whichever one is over.

What counts as a word

Microsoft Word and Google Docs do not agree, so you pick which of them to imitate. Word splits on spaces and nothing else, so a lone plus sign between two numbers is a word and 6 + 3 is three of them. Google Docs also splits a token at a full stop, comma, slash, colon, question mark or equals sign, so the same sum is two words, 4,192 is two, and a full web address is six.

On ordinary prose the two agree, and neither of them shatters state-of-the-art into four words. Hindi typed in Devanagari is counted the same way English is, because every Indian script puts spaces between words. Chinese and Japanese are counted one word per character, which is what both word processors do.

The same answer on an old phone and a new one

Browsers disagree about where one character ends and the next begins. A Devanagari conjunct is a single character on a current Chrome and two on an older Android WebView, because the rule that holds it together arrived in a later version of the Unicode data the phone ships with. This page works out the boundaries itself rather than asking the phone, so the number you read here is the number somebody on a different handset reads.

Questions

Does the reading time mean anything?
It is your word count divided by 238 words a minute for silent reading and 183 for reading aloud. Both figures come from a published meta-analysis of reading studies rather than the round 200 and 130 most counters use. It is still an average, so treat it as a guide for timing a speech, not as a stopwatch.
How accurate is the sentence count?
Good on ordinary writing. It knows that Dr. Smith and No. 5 are not sentence endings, a decimal point is never mistaken for one, and a Hindi danda is treated as a full stop. It over-counts a bulleted list, because every line break is read as the end of a thought.
Can it count Hinglish?
Yes, and it does not need to be told which language it is looking at. Romanised Hindi is spaced like English, so kya scene hai is three words under either rule. Only the keyword table is language-specific: choose English or Hindi so the common words drop out of it, or switch the filter off and check the arithmetic yourself.
Where does my text go?
Nowhere. It stays inside the page you typed it into, which is why the numbers still come back with your connection switched off, and why a draft of something you would not email around is safe to paste here.

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