Word & Character Counter

About the Word & Character Counter

The Word & Character Counter gives you live counts of words, characters, sentences, and paragraphs as you type, plus reading time, speaking time, keyword density, and readability scores — everything writers, students, and SEOs need in one place.

Where the counts actually matter

• Meta titles and descriptions. Search results truncate by pixel width, but the working guidance is 50–60 characters for a title and 150–160 for a description. Ten seconds here is the difference between a result that makes its case and one that ends mid-sen…
• Anything with a hard limit. Social posts, ad copy, form fields, SMS, product titles on marketplaces, university essays with a stated word count that is actually enforced.
• Reading time on long posts. Publishing an honest estimate measurably reduces bounce, because it lets someone decide to come back later rather than leaving.
• Editing down. Paste a draft, note the count, cut, re-paste. Watching the number fall is a surprisingly effective way to find the paragraph you didn't need.

How to read readability and keyword density

The Flesch reading-ease score is a rough proxy for sentence length and word complexity, not a judgement of quality. Around 60 and above is plain-English territory, which is where most marketing and web copy should sit. A low score almost always traces back to one or two long sentences that want splitting — the fix is structural, not vocabulary.

Keyword density is best treated as a warning light rather than a target. There is no percentage to aim for. But if a phrase is showing up at 5%, you have written something that reads badly to a human and looks like stuffing to a search engine, and the answer is to rewrite rather than to tune the number.

Character counts distinguish with and without spaces because different limits mean different things — database columns and SMS segments usually count everything, while some style guides don't.

Works well with

Pair it with the Lorem Ipsum Generator when you're designing to a length: generate filler at the exact word count your layout allows, and you'll know whether the real copy has room before it's written. If you're preparing metadata for a site you're about to launch, the shipping a small website guide covers where this sits in the build order, alongside contrast checking and the rest.

For word games, the letter-frequency view pairs with the Word Unscrambler — see the word games guide.

Frequently Asked Questions