What is Word Counter?

Word Counter is a tool for checking word count and text size in English text. It shows total words, characters, lines, bytes, reading time, and speaking time.

It also includes a word frequency table and text-structure analysis, which makes it useful for English writing, draft review, and spotting overused words.

How to Use

1. Enter your English text.
2. Review the count results.
3. Open the Word Frequency or Text Analysis tab if needed.
4. Adjust the reading speed or the settings for the word list to refine the result.

Main Count Types

Count Results

• Total words
• Unique words
• Reading time
• Speaking time
• Characters with whitespace
• Characters without whitespace
• Bytes
• Lines

Word Frequency

Each word's occurrences are listed in order of frequency. The table can be sorted and filtered with the search box, and the CSV download contains the list before the search filter is applied.

Text Analysis

This section shows sentence count, average sentence length, paragraph count, average paragraph length, and lexical diversity.

Main Settings

Reading Speed (WPM)

This changes the reading speed used for estimating reading time. The default is 225 WPM, and you can also pick from the Slow, Standard, and Fast presets.

Case Sensitive

This controls whether words are counted with case sensitivity. By default, The and the are counted as the same word; enabling it keeps them separate. Useful when analyzing names or code-like text.

Exclude Stop Words

This removes common words such as the, a, and of, along with contractions like don't.

Either setting applies only to the frequency list. The other counts stay the same.

Use Cases

• Checking whether an essay or assignment fits a word limit
• Estimating reading time before publishing an article
• Checking the speaking time of a speech script
• Spotting repeated words

Things to Keep in Mind

• Runs of digits and hyphenated words (such as well-being) count as single words
• The ratio is a share of all words. Stop-word exclusion does not change the number of words used for the calculation, so the ratios may not add up to 100% when excluded
• Text without sentence-ending punctuation or empty lines is counted as one sentence and one paragraph
• Speaking time is estimated at 140 words per minute, and reading time uses the selected reading speed