Word Counter with Readability Scoring
Paste any text to get word, sentence, and paragraph counts plus an estimated reading time. Writers use it for word limits, marketers for ad copy constraints, and students for essay requirements.
How to use
- Paste your text into the input box.
- Optionally enable the AI enhancement for a readability assessment.
- Click Run to see word, sentence, and paragraph counts with reading time.
Word counts sound trivial until edge cases appear: is a hyphenated compound one word or two? Do numbers count? What about em-dash-separated clauses? This counter uses consistent whitespace-based tokenization, so the same text always produces the same count, which is what matters when you are writing against a limit.
Reading time estimates assume roughly 200-240 words per minute of adult silent reading, the range most publishing platforms use. That makes the estimate directly comparable to what Medium or a CMS will display for the same article.
Typical uses: meta descriptions capped at 160 characters (use the character counter for that), college essays with 500-word limits, LinkedIn posts that truncate after around 210 words, and abstracts that journals cap at 250 words. Sentence counts are computed from terminal punctuation, so abbreviations like 'e.g.' can occasionally inflate the count, a limitation shared by every non-AI sentence splitter.
The optional AI enhancement goes beyond arithmetic: it evaluates readability, sentence length variance, passive voice density, and jargon load, and suggests where to simplify. That is the difference between knowing your text is 400 words and knowing whether those 400 words are doing their job.
Examples
Input: The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog.
Output: 9 words, 1 sentence, 1 paragraph, ~3 seconds reading timeInput: First paragraph with five words.
Second one has four.
Output: 9 words, 2 sentences, 2 paragraphsFrequently asked questions
How is reading time calculated?
Word count divided by a standard adult reading speed of roughly 200-240 words per minute. It is an estimate for typical prose, dense technical writing reads slower, listicles faster.
Do hyphenated words count as one word or two?
One. Tokens are split on whitespace, so 'state-of-the-art' is a single word, the same convention most word processors use.
What does the AI readability score tell me?
It assesses how easy your text is to read: sentence length, passive constructions, and vocabulary complexity, with concrete suggestions. You get 10 free AI runs per day. The basic counts are always free.
Is my text saved anywhere?
Not for anonymous use, the count is computed and returned, nothing persists. Signed-in users can optionally keep a 50-run history.
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