Word Counter
Count words, characters, sentences, paragraphs and reading time in any text.
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No Spaces
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Paragraphs
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Read time
About the Word Counter
The DevGizmo Word Counter gives you an instant breakdown of any text you paste or type. Whether you are writing an article, drafting an email, or checking a specification document against a word limit, the tool updates all six statistics in real time so you never have to click a button.
All processing happens in your browser — nothing is sent to a server. There is no word limit: paste thousands of lines and the counter handles it instantly.
What Each Statistic Means
- Words — total count of whitespace-separated tokens, the standard definition used by word processors.
- Characters — total character count including spaces, punctuation and newlines.
- No Spaces — character count with all whitespace stripped. Useful for SMS and social-media character limits.
- Sentences — count of sentence-ending punctuation marks (
.!?). - Paragraphs — blocks of text separated by one or more blank lines.
- Read time — estimated reading time based on the average adult reading speed of 200 words per minute.
Common Use Cases
Blog authors use it to target a specific word count before publishing. Developers use it to gauge README length and documentation verbosity. Students use it to verify essays meet assignment requirements. Copywriters use it to check ad copy character limits for Google Ads or Twitter.