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Word & Character Counter

Count words, characters, lines, sentences and estimated reading time locally.

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Method, example & boundaries

Word & Character Counter: from input to a reviewable result

Measure a draft in one local pass: words, Unicode characters, non-space characters, sentences, paragraphs, lines, and estimated reading time. The counters are shown together so a writer can distinguish a platform character limit from an editorial word target instead of treating them as the same number.

Worked example: a two-paragraph launch note

Example input
“321Kit converts files locally. Your document stays on this device.”
Example output
Ten English words, two sentences, two paragraphs, and the corresponding character totals.

How to interpret it

Paragraphs come from non-empty blocks separated by a blank line; character counts retain punctuation while non-space counts exclude whitespace.

Unicode-aware text measurement

The browser normalizes line endings, segments non-empty paragraphs and lines, counts Unicode code points, detects sentence-ending punctuation, and estimates reading time from language-appropriate word or character rates. The input never leaves the page.

Counting boundaries

  • Hyphenated terms, URLs, emoji sequences, and mixed CJK text may be counted differently by another editor.
  • Reading time is a planning estimate, not a measurement of a particular reader.
  • Publisher limits may count UTF-16 units, bytes, or grapheme clusters instead of Unicode code points.

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