Word Counter Pro

Free Word Counter — Count Words, Characters & Reading Time

Whether you are writing a blog post, crafting ad copy, preparing an essay, or optimizing content for SEO, knowing your word count, character count, sentence count, and estimated reading time is essential. This free Word Counter Pro gives you all of these metrics instantly as you type or paste text, with no ads, sign-up, or character limit.

Paste or type any text to see word count, character count (with and without spaces), sentence count, paragraph count, and estimated reading time. All calculations happen instantly in your browser — your text is never sent to a server.

Content writers, SEO professionals, students, and authors all rely on word count tools to meet requirements, optimize content length, and understand how long readers will spend on their content.

What Each Metric Means

Word count. Total number of words. The primary metric for meeting content length requirements (blog posts, academic essays, SEO content guidelines).

Character count. Total characters including spaces. Critical for social media posts (Twitter's 280 character limit), meta descriptions (155–160 characters), and title tags (50–60 characters).

Sentence count. Total sentences. Used to calculate average sentence length — shorter sentences improve readability.

Reading time. Estimated minutes to read the content at average adult reading speed (225 words per minute). Use this to set reader expectations and for Medium-style reading time displays.

Word Count and SEO Content Strategy

Content length is a proxy for comprehensiveness. A 200-word page about "how to set up email marketing" is almost certainly thinner than a competing 2000-word guide. Google's quality systems reward content that fully answers the search query. Use word count as one signal — but focus on covering the topic completely rather than padding for length.

For meta descriptions, stay under 160 characters to prevent truncation in search results. For title tags, target 50–60 characters. For social media posts, respect platform limits. Use character count to optimize across all channels.

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