What does a word counter measure?

A word counter summarizes a text by counting words, characters with and without spaces, sentences, paragraphs, and estimated reading time. The measurements update while typing, making the page useful for editorial limits, form fields, essays, scripts, and accessibility checks without sending unpublished copy elsewhere.

Words are counted as whitespace-separated runs, paragraphs as blocks divided by blank lines, and reading time at 200 words per minute. Sentence detection uses punctuation heuristics rather than a language parser, so abbreviations and unusual prose can affect the result; hyphenated compounds count as one word.