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Word & Character Counter
Instant word, character, line, and reading-time counts.
Word & Character Counter tool
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About This Tool
Measure a draft before publishing or submitting it without manually counting words or characters. The live summary separates total characters from characters without spaces, counts lines, sentences, and paragraphs, estimates reading time, and highlights repeated words. It is useful for form limits, social posts, metadata drafts, essays, articles, documentation, and editing passes where several text-length signals matter at once.
How To Use It
- Paste or type the text you want to measure into the editor.
- Review the live word, character, line, sentence, paragraph, and reading-time counts as the text changes.
- Check the repeated-word summary when you want to spot terms that may be appearing too often.
- Use Clean spacing only when you intentionally want to trim the text and collapse whitespace, or copy the statistics as JSON when you need to save or compare the measurements.
Examples
Check a form character limit
Paste a profile, application, or listing description and compare its total character count with the limit shown by the destination form. Use the count with spaces unless that form explicitly defines characters differently.
Review an article draft
Use word count and estimated reading time to understand the draft's length, then scan repeated words for terms that may deserve an editing pass. Repetition is a signal, not automatically a writing error.
Measure text without spaces
When a requirement specifically excludes spaces, use the characters-without-spaces result rather than subtracting spaces manually. Keep punctuation in mind because it still counts as a character.
Useful Notes
Lines and paragraphs
Line counts recognize LF, CRLF, and CR line endings. Paragraphs are non-empty blocks separated by blank lines, including blank lines containing only whitespace. A single line break stays within the same paragraph, and blank lines at the beginning or end do not add paragraphs.
How words are counted
Words are identified from non-empty text separated by whitespace. Other editors or publishing systems can use different tokenization rules for hyphens, symbols, or languages without spaces, so counts may not match every external service exactly.
Character counts have two meanings
The tool reports total characters and characters without whitespace separately. Punctuation and symbols remain characters, so choose the measurement that matches the requirement you are checking.
Reading time is an estimate
Reading time uses roughly 225 words per minute and rounds up to a practical minute estimate. Actual reading speed varies with language, complexity, formatting, and the reader.
Local processing
Counting and text analysis happen in the browser for this tool. Your pasted draft is not sent to a Hanakash server by the counter itself.
Clean spacing changes the text
Clean spacing trims the text and collapses whitespace, including paragraph-separating whitespace, into single spaces. Copy your original elsewhere first if preserving its exact formatting matters.
FAQ
Are spaces included in the character count?
The tool shows both measurements: total characters and characters without whitespace. Use whichever definition matches the limit or requirement you are checking.
How is reading time estimated?
The estimate is based on roughly 225 words per minute and is rounded up to at least one minute for non-empty text. It is a planning estimate rather than a prediction for every reader.
Does Clean spacing remove paragraph breaks?
Yes. Clean spacing trims the text and collapses whitespace into single spaces, so paragraph breaks and repeated line breaks are not preserved.
Why might another word counter show a different number?
Counting rules vary. Some systems treat hyphenated terms, apostrophes, symbols, URLs, or languages without whitespace differently, so small differences between tools are possible.
Does the counter upload my text?
The counter performs its measurements in your browser and does not send the entered text to a Hanakash server as part of the counting operation.