Count words, characters, sentences and paragraphs as you type, with reading time, speaking time and your most used keywords.
Your text never leaves your device. Everything is counted in this browser tab.
Keywords appear here once you add some text. Common words such as "the", "and" and "है" are left out.
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Paste an essay, a blog draft, a product description or a speech into the box and the numbers below it change with every key you press. You get the word count, two character counts (with and without spaces), sentences, paragraphs and lines, plus an estimate of how long the text takes to read silently and to say out loud. A keyword table lists the words you lean on most, so you can spot repetition before an editor or a search engine does.
A word is any run of characters between spaces, tabs or line breaks that contains at least one letter or digit. That rule works for English and for every script that separates words with spaces, including Hindi, Marathi, Bengali, Tamil, Arabic and Russian. Vowel signs and conjuncts in Devanagari stay inside the word they belong to, so "क्षत्रिय" is one word, not several. A dash or a bullet standing on its own is not counted. Chinese and Japanese do not put spaces between words, so each of their characters is counted as one word, which is how most editors handle them.
Characters are counted the way a reader sees them. An emoji with a skin tone, a family emoji built from several people, or a Hindi letter with its vowel sign each count as a single character, even though the computer stores them as several code points. Sentences end at a full stop, question mark, exclamation mark or the Hindi danda, as long as a space or the end of the text follows, so "3.14" does not break a sentence. Paragraphs are blocks separated by an empty line.
Reading time assumes 238 words per minute, the average silent reading speed for non-fiction found in a large 2019 review of reading studies. Many readers are slower, closer to 200 words per minute, and technical material takes longer still, so treat the figure as a typical adult reading in their first language. Speaking time assumes 130 words per minute, a calm presentation pace that leaves room for pauses.
Take a 1,190 word blog post. At 238 words per minute it reads in exactly 5 minutes. Spoken at 130 words per minute it runs to about 9 minutes 9 seconds, which tells you a recorded version needs trimming if your video is meant to be under eight minutes.
Common English words such as "the", "with" and "would", and common Hindi words such as "है", "के" and "में", are skipped, because they would top every list. The share column shows how many of all your words were that keyword. A single term above 3 to 4 percent of a short article usually reads as repetitive, so swap in a synonym or a pronoun.
Counting happens entirely in your browser; your text is not uploaded, saved or logged by Ur Next Door. Very long documents of several hundred thousand words still work, but the counts refresh after a short pause in typing instead of on every key. Abbreviations like "Dr." or "e.g." may be read as the end of a sentence, and Thai or Lao, which also skip spaces, are counted per space-separated chunk.
