Word Counter
Count words, characters, sentences, and reading time in Arabic and English text.
- Free
- No signup
- Runs in your browser — nothing is uploaded
Browser onlyYour data never leaves this device.
Runs entirely in your browser. Your text never leaves this device and is never stored.
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Input
Paste or type Arabic or English text. Nothing is stored.
Result
No text yet.
Type or paste text above to see live counts.
Word Counter provides instant, deterministic volume analytics for both Arabic and English text, tabulating words, characters with and without spaces, sentences, paragraphs, reading duration, and top repeated words as you type. Unlike Character Counter, which focuses narrowly on strict single-line input budgets for social platforms and metadata limits, Word Counter delivers a complete structural breakdown for long-form essays, academic papers, and translation drafts. Its counting algorithms adhere to explicit, predictable Unicode rules: word tokens comprise continuous sequences of letters and digits, meaning hyphenated compounds divide into distinct parts across all languages. Sentence detection splits strictly on terminal punctuation marks including periods, exclamation marks, question marks, ellipses, and Arabic question marks. Character tallies measure discrete Unicode code points rather than raw UTF-8 bytes, ensuring emojis with tone modifiers reflect true character indices. Estimated reading time applies an explicit, industry-standard baseline of 200 words per minute for silent reading. Operating under a generous ceiling of 200,000 characters without network calls, the entire analysis runs locally inside client memory without storing your drafts.
Key facts
- Input
- Pasted text
- Output
- Counts: words, characters, sentences, reading time
- Limits
- Accepts up to 200,000 characters per analysis run; larger texts must be split into parts. Reading time is calculated strictly at 200 words per minute for silent reading, rounded up to whole seconds.
- Processing
- In your browser — nothing is uploaded
- Sign-up
- Not required
- Cost
- Free
Limits above are read from the same code that enforces them; formats are the ones the tool accepts and produces.
How to use Word Counter
- Type or paste your text directly into the input area (up to 200,000 characters).
- Observe real-time metric updates for word, character, sentence, and paragraph counts.
- Review the character breakdown with and without whitespace to evaluate publisher criteria.
- Inspect the estimated reading duration calculated at an explicit 200 words per minute.
- Check the top 5 repeated words list to identify keyword repetition and optimize vocabulary.
- Click Copy Summary to copy formatted plain-text statistics or clear to reset the input.
What you get
- Word, character, sentence and reading-time counts for the pasted text.
- The tokenisation rule stated on the page: words are letter and digit sequences, so hyphenated compounds split.
- Counts in Unicode code points, with the emoji caveat shown rather than hidden.
When to use Word Counter
- Check an essay or article against a word limit before submitting it.
- Trim Arabic or English social posts to fit a character budget.
- Measure an Arabic post and an English one against the same character budget before publishing either.
Frequently asked questions about Word Counter
Does Word Counter send or store my text on any server?
No. Every word, character, and sentence calculation executes strictly inside your browser's JavaScript engine; nothing is sent over the network or saved to cookies or databases.
What is the maximum text size allowed in Word Counter?
The tool processes inputs up to 200,000 characters in a single pass without lag, checked against scalar limits before allocating analytical memory.
How does Word Counter differ from Character Counter?
Character Counter focuses on strict platform character limits (like social posts and SMS), while Word Counter offers a full structural analysis with paragraphs, sentences, reading time, and word frequencies.
How are Arabic and English words tokenized?
The engine treats sequences of letters and digits as words across both Arabic and English. Diacritics remain attached to characters, while hyphens and punctuation act as word boundaries.
Why does an abbreviation like "e.g." increase the sentence count?
Sentence splitting looks for terminal punctuation marks (. ! ? … ؟); because it runs deterministically without an English dictionary, periods in abbreviations register as sentence boundaries.
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