Count total words, characters, sentences, paragraphs, and reading time.
Words are counted by splitting the text at spaces and line breaks, so a hyphenated word like well-known counts as one, and numbers count as words. The character count includes everything, spaces and punctuation too; the no-spaces count leaves out spaces, tabs and line breaks.
Sentences are counted at full stops, question marks and exclamation marks, so abbreviations like e.g. or Dr. can nudge the sentence count up. Each line of text counts as a paragraph. Reading time assumes 200 words a minute and rounds up, a common rule of thumb for adult reading speed.
A standard post on X is capped at 280 characters, and Instagram captions at 2,200. A single SMS holds 160 plain characters. Google doesn't have a fixed limit for titles and meta descriptions because it measures them in pixels, but titles over about 60 characters and descriptions over about 155 to 160 tend to get cut off. The Common App personal essay for US colleges allows 650 words.
Every program has its own rules for things like dashes, web addresses, numbers and footnotes, so a long document can come out a few words different from one tool to the next. If you're writing to a strict limit, go by the counter your school, client or publisher uses.
In the main character count, yes. The without-spaces count leaves them out. Most character limits, such as posts on X and SMS, include spaces.
About 5 minutes at 200 words a minute. Speaking is slower, roughly 130 to 150 words a minute, so 1,000 words is closer to 7 minutes as a speech.
No. Everything is counted in your browser, and the text is gone when you close the tab.
Yes for any language that puts spaces between words. For Chinese, Japanese or Thai, which don't, the word count isn't meaningful, but the character count still is.
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