What is Word Counter?

A real-time text analysis tool for measuring word count and analyzing the structure of English text. From basic metrics like total words, characters, and bytes to paragraph count, sentence count, reading time, and word frequency—get comprehensive insights to streamline your writing and editing workflow.

Supports analysis of all types of English text including academic papers, business documents, blog articles, and translation manuscripts.

How to Use

Simply enter your English text in the input area and see analysis results update in real-time.

📊 Count Results

View basic statistics for your input text at a glance.

• Total Words - Number of words counted by space separation
• Reading Time - Estimated time based on your configured reading speed (WPM)
• Characters - Displayed both with and without spaces
• Bytes - Data size in UTF-8 encoding
• Sentences, Paragraphs, Lines - Useful for understanding text structure

📝 Word Frequency Tab

Shows word usage counts in table format.

• Sorting - Sort by word name (alphabetically) or occurrence count
• Stop Words Exclusion - Filter out common function words like "the", "is", "at" to extract only meaningful keywords
• CSV Download - Save data in CSV format for secondary use

📈 Text Analysis Tab

Displays detailed analysis of text structure.

• Paragraph Analysis - Paragraph count, average paragraph length (words), lines per paragraph
• Sentence Analysis - Sentence count, average sentence length (words), unique word count (vocabulary richness)

Settings

Reading Speed (WPM)

Adjust the words per minute used for reading time calculation, ranging from 100 to 600. The default is 300 WPM, based on the average English reading speed. Speed readers may prefer 400–600, while those reading carefully might set it around 150–250.

Case Sensitive

Toggle whether to distinguish between uppercase and lowercase in word frequency counts. Default is OFF (case-insensitive), where "Hello" and "hello" are counted as the same word. When ON, they are counted separately—useful for analyzing identifiers in program code.

Stop Words Exclusion

Excludes function words such as articles (the, a, an), prepositions (in, on, at), and pronouns (it, this, that) from word frequency counts. Useful for SEO analysis and keyword extraction.

Use Cases

• Word-limited Writing - Check word count for academic papers and business documents
• SEO Optimization - Keyword analysis for blog articles and marketing content
• Text Optimization - Adjust paragraph and sentence length to improve readability
• Translation & Editing - Compare word counts and byte sizes between original and translated text
• Reading Time Estimation - Plan time allocation for presentations and lectures

How Analysis Works

Word Counting Method

Counts space-separated strings as individual words. Apostrophes and special characters are removed, and only alphanumeric characters are counted.

Sentence Detection

Counts units separated by punctuation marks (., !, ?) as individual sentences. Abbreviations like "Dr." and "Mr.", as well as ellipses (...), are handled to avoid false detection as sentence boundaries.

Paragraph Detection

Counts text blocks separated by blank lines (consecutive line breaks) as individual paragraphs.