Count words, characters, sentences, paragraphs and reading time as you type — plus live keyword density. Everything runs in your browser, free.

Type or paste your text below — counts and reading time update live as you write. Nothing is uploaded; everything is computed in your browser.

Reading speed
words/min
Keyword density
Phrase length
# Keyword Count Density
Keyword density will appear here as you type.
0 Words
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0 Characters (no spaces)
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0 Paragraphs
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0 Unique words
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About Word & Character Counter

The word and character counter analyzes your text live as you type or paste. It tracks words, characters with and without spaces, sentences, paragraphs, lines and unique words, plus average word length and the longest word — everything a writing limit or style check needs.

Reading time is computed from an adjustable words-per-minute speed, and speaking time uses a typical 130 wpm speech pace. A keyword density panel counts your most frequent words and phrases — switchable between one-, two- and three-word phrases — with an option to ignore common stop words.

It is free and private: all counting happens in your browser, nothing is uploaded, and copy and clear buttons keep the workflow quick for essays, tweets, meta descriptions and SEO drafts.

How to use Word & Character Counter

  1. Type or paste your text — every statistic updates live.
  2. Read the word, character, sentence, paragraph, line and unique-word counts.
  3. Adjust the reading speed to match your audience and check reading and speaking time.
  4. Open the keyword density panel, pick a phrase length of 1–3 words, and toggle “Ignore common words”.
  5. Use Copy or Clear to grab your text or start fresh.

Frequently asked questions

The text is split on whitespace, and surrounding punctuation is stripped before counting — so “word,” and “word” count as the same token, matching how word processors count.

It is how often a word or phrase appears relative to the total word count. Writers and SEOs use it to spot over-repetition; the table shows each keyword's count and percentage as you type.

It filters stop words like “the”, “and” and “of” out of the keyword density table, so the list highlights meaningful terms instead of grammatical glue.

Yes — set the phrase length to 2 or 3 to rank two- and three-word phrases. Multi-word phrases need at least two occurrences to appear, which keeps the table focused on real patterns.

Completely. Counting, reading-time and density analysis all run locally in your browser; drafts and confidential documents never touch a server.

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