Text & Writing
Word Counter
Paste or type your text and the counts update as you go.
- Runs in your browser
- Counts as you type
- Your text stays on your device
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Your counts
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Type or paste some text and the words, characters and reading time update as you go.
Your text has
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- Characters
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- Characters without spaces
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- Sentences
- 0
- Paragraphs
- 0
- Lines
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- Reading time
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- Speaking time
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Character limits
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X postapproximate · 280280 left
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Meta descriptionaim for 155–160160 left
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Instagram caption2,2002200 left
How we count
Plain rules, applied the same way every time.
- Words
- Runs of characters between spaces that contain a letter or number. “Well-known” and “don’t” are one word; “—” on its own is not.
- Characters
- Counted as you see them, so an emoji or an accented letter is one character. “Without spaces” leaves out spaces, tabs and line breaks.
- Sentences
- Your browser’s sentence detection, ignoring decimals, web addresses and common abbreviations such as “e.g.” and “Dr.”.
- Paragraphs and lines
- A paragraph ends at an empty line. Every line break starts a new line, except one at the very end.
- Reading and speaking time
- Words divided by your reading speed, rounded to the nearest minute (short texts show “< 1 min”). Speaking time uses 130 words per minute.
Changes the reading time in your counts.
Questions
How are words counted?
A word is any run of characters between spaces that contains at least one letter or number. Hyphenated words and words with apostrophes count once, so “well-known” and “don’t” are one word each. Numbers such as 3.14 count as words, while symbols on their own, such as “—” or “&”, do not. For Chinese, Japanese and Thai, which are written without spaces, your browser’s built-in word segmentation is used.
Why is the character count different from another site?
Biberks counts characters the way you see them: an emoji, a flag or an accented letter counts as one character, even when it is stored as several code units. Some sites count code units instead, so an emoji counts as two there. Platforms such as X also weight some characters differently, which is why the X bar is marked as approximate.
How is reading time estimated?
Reading time divides the word count by a reading speed of 200 words per minute and rounds to the nearest minute. You can switch to 250 or 300 words per minute under “How we count”. Very short texts show “< 1 min”. Speaking time uses 130 words per minute.
What counts as a sentence, a paragraph and a line?
Sentences are found with your browser’s sentence detection, so decimals like 3.14, web addresses and common abbreviations such as “e.g.” or “Dr.” don’t start a new sentence. A paragraph is a block of text separated from the next by an empty line. Lines are counted at every line break; a line break at the very end doesn’t add an extra line.
Is my text stored or sent anywhere?
No. Counting happens entirely in your browser. Your text is not sent to Biberks or anyone else, and it is not saved when you leave or reload the page. It is copied to your clipboard only when you press a Copy button.