Counts words, characters, sentences, and paragraphs in a text.
The word count tool analyses a block of text and returns the word count, character count (with and without spaces), sentence count, paragraph count, and estimated reading time.
Words = count of whitespace-delimited tokens Characters = total Unicode code points Sentences ≈ count of . ! ? (heuristic) Reading time = Word count / 238 minutes (average adult reading speed ≈ 238 wpm)
500-word essay: reading time = 500 / 238 ≈ 2.1 minutes. A 80,000-word novel ≈ 336 minutes (5.6 hours) to read.
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