Paste or type your text and the counts update as you go: words, characters with and without spaces, sentences, paragraphs, and how long it takes to read and to say out loud. Bars show how close you are to the limits on X, LinkedIn, meta descriptions and more.
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X post0/280
Meta description0/160
Title tag0/60
SMS0/160
LinkedIn post0/3000
Instagram caption0/2200
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Reading and speaking time
Times use 238 words a minute for silent reading, the average for adults reading English (Brysbaert, 2019), and 140 words a minute for speaking at a presentation pace.
Words
Reading time
Speaking time
Pages (single-spaced)
250
1 min
2 min
0.5
500
2 min
4 min
1
1,000
4 min
7 min
2
1,500
6 min
11 min
3
2,000
8 min
14 min
4
5,000
21 min
36 min
10
Character limits worth knowing
Where
Limit
X (Twitter) post
280 characters
Google title tag (before it's cut)
about 60 characters
Meta description (before it's cut)
about 155–160 characters
SMS (one message)
160 characters
Instagram caption
2,200 characters
LinkedIn post
3,000 characters
YouTube title
100 characters
Word Counter: questions
How are words counted?+
A word is a run of letters or numbers. Hyphenated words and contractions like well-known and it's count as one word, the same way Word and Google Docs count them. Punctuation and emoji on their own aren't words.
How long does it take to read 1,000 words?+
About 4 minutes. Adults read English silently at around 238 words a minute (Brysbaert, 2019). Spoken aloud, at a presentation pace of about 140 words a minute, 1,000 words takes around 7 minutes.
Do spaces count as characters?+
Usually, yes. Most limits, including X, SMS and meta descriptions, count spaces. Some essay and form limits don't, so the counter shows both.
How many words is a page?+
About 500 words single-spaced, or 250 double-spaced, in a 12-point font with normal margins.
