Draft
82 words · 22s read
Most used words64 unique
135.9%
sentence
223.9%
average
323.9%
per
412.0%
argument
512.0%
attention
612.0%
belongs
712.0%
call
812.0%
compromise
Words82
Characters495
Sentences6
Paragraphs3
Count words, characters, sentences, and paragraphs as you type, against the length limit you are actually writing for — a post, a title, a meta description, an essay, or a number you set yourself. The same pass reports reading time, speaking time, readability, and the keywords the draft leans on.
Step by step
01Paste or write the draft
Counting runs as you type, on your machine. Nothing is uploaded, so an unpublished post or an internal memo is safe here.
02Choose the limit you are writing to
Social post, page title, meta description, essay, or a custom number in characters or words. The counter then reports headroom instead of a bare total, which is the number you actually need.
03Read the times, not just the counts
Reading time at 220 words per minute and speaking time at 130 answer the two questions a word count is usually standing in for: how long will this take to read, and how long will it take to say.
04Check the keywords and the readability
The keyword list shows what the draft repeats, with stopwords excluded by default. Flesch reading ease and grade level put a number on whether the sentences are doing too much work.
Worked example
A 100-word paragraph of ordinary prose, through each figure the tool reports. The point is how differently the same text reads depending on which measure you are being held to.
Given
The same paragraph, measured six ways
words 100
characters ~600 with spaces, ~500 without
reading time 27s at 220 wpm
speaking time 46s at 130 wpm
avg sentence 20 words
grade level ~10 readable, not effortlessA paragraph is about half a minute of reading and three quarters of a minute of speech — which is why a two-minute video script is nearer 260 words than 400, and why an intro that reads briskly on the page can run long when it is narrated. Characters, not words, are what social limits and search snippets count, so a draft that is comfortably short in words can still be cut off.
Before you trust the number
Every platform counts differently
Some count characters, some count words, some count graphemes, and some count a URL as a fixed length whatever it really is. The counts here are the honest ones — words by Unicode segmentation, characters with and without spaces — so compare them against the specific limit you are held to rather than assuming they agree.
Emoji and accents are one character, not several
A flag emoji is several code points and a family emoji is many; counting them naively gives numbers no human recognises. Characters are counted as graphemes — what a reader would call one character — which is also how most modern limits behave.
Reading time is an average, not a promise
220 words per minute is a reasonable adult silent-reading pace for ordinary prose. Dense technical writing runs slower, skimming runs much faster, and neither is wrong. Use it to compare drafts against each other rather than as a guarantee to a reader.
Speaking is slower than reading, by a lot
At 130 words per minute a passage takes about 70% longer to say than to read. That gap is why scripts written to a reading estimate overrun, and it is the number to use when the draft is a talk, a voiceover, or a video.
Readability scores measure sentences, not ideas
Flesch reading ease and grade level are arithmetic on sentence length and syllable counts. They will happily approve fluent nonsense and penalise clear writing full of long domain terms. Treat a bad score as a prompt to reread the sentence lengths, not as a verdict.
Keyword counts show habits, not quality
The list is what the draft repeats once stopwords are set aside — useful for catching a word you have leaned on four times in a paragraph. It is not a search-optimisation target; writing to hit a repetition count is the behaviour search engines spent two decades learning to ignore.
The judgement call
Most drafts are held to one limit that matters. These are the ones people are usually up against.
A page title for search results
~60 chars
Titles are truncated by pixel width, not characters, but 60 is the practical line for a Latin-script title.
A meta description
~155 chars
Longer descriptions get cut mid-sentence. Front-load the meaning in the first 120 characters.
A social post
Characters
Every platform counts characters, and most count a link as a fixed length regardless of its real one.
An essay or an assignment
Words
Word limits are the academic convention. Check whether quotes and references are included before you trim.
A talk or a video script
Speaking time
130 wpm is the honest constraint. A 5-minute slot is roughly 650 words, not 1,000.
Chasing a keyword density figure
Don't
Density targets are a relic. Write for the reader; the keyword list is a habit check, not a quota.
Reference
FAQ
Paste it in and the count appears immediately — no button, no upload. Words are split with the browser's Unicode segmenter, so hyphenated compounds, contractions, and non-Latin scripts are counted the way a reader would count them rather than by splitting on spaces. Alongside the word count you get characters with and without spaces, sentences, paragraphs, reading time at 220 words per minute, and speaking time at 130.
About two minutes and fifteen seconds at 220 words per minute, which is a typical adult silent-reading pace for ordinary prose. Spoken aloud the same 500 words run closer to three minutes and fifty seconds, because measured speech sits nearer 130 words per minute.
Around 155 characters is the practical limit before search results truncate it, and titles are usually safe to about 60. Both are really pixel-width limits rather than character limits, so put the meaning first and treat the numbers as a guide rather than a hard rule.
Both, side by side. Social platforms and search snippets count spaces; some publishing and translation systems bill without them. Characters are counted as graphemes, so an emoji made from several code points counts as one rather than as four or five.
A Flesch reading ease around 60–70 is plain English at roughly an eighth to ninth grade level, which suits most general writing. Below 30 the sentences are doing too much at once. The score reacts to sentence length and syllable count only, so it cannot tell you whether the writing is any good — just whether it is dense.
No. Counting, readability, and keyword extraction all run in your browser, so an unpublished draft never reaches a server. Drafts under 2,400 characters can travel inside a share link if you want a colleague to see the same text and settings; longer ones stay put and only the settings are shared.
Counting, readability, and keyword extraction all run in your browser. Nothing is uploaded or retained, which makes the tool safe for unpublished drafts and internal documents.
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