Count Characters And Words
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A clearer picture of your text
Use this character and word counter to check a draft as you write. See characters with and without spaces, plus words, sentences and paragraphs. It helps writers and students size an assignment, and content teams prepare social posts or fit a form’s character limit. Always check the destination’s own limit, since platforms can count symbols and links differently.
Reading and speaking times are estimates at 200 and 130 words per minute. The readability score offers another way to review your draft; it cannot judge its meaning or accuracy. For assignments with formatting requirements, see how word counts translate to pages.
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Understanding the readability score
Flesch Reading Ease estimates how easy English text is to read from sentence length and syllables per word. Higher scores suggest easier reading. This counter displays a score from 0 to 100.
- 90–100
- Very easy
- 80–<90
- Easy
- 70–<80
- Fairly easy
- 60–<70
- Standard
- 50–<60
- Fairly difficult
- 30–<50
- Difficult
- 0–<30
- Very difficult
Treat the result as a guide, especially for short drafts. Estimated syllables, names and specialist vocabulary can affect it. It does not measure clarity, factual accuracy or suitability for your audience, and is less useful for languages other than English.