About word counting
Word count is the most basic text metric and is required for essays, articles, academic submissions and social media posts. Characters without spaces is useful for character-limited fields. Sentences are detected by periods, exclamation marks and question marks followed by a space or end of text.
Reading time uses the average adult reading speed of 200 words per minute. Paragraphs are counted as blocks of text separated by one or more blank lines. All counts update live as you type, making this tool useful for drafting within limits.