Paste this sentence pair into the box above — "OneTabKit is a collection of free browser-based tools. Every calculation happens on your device, and nothing you type is ever sent to a server. That's the whole idea." — and here's exactly what comes back: 28 words, 166 characters (139 without spaces), 3 sentences, 1 paragraph, and an estimated 1 minute reading time. Word count splits on whitespace, so "browser-based" counts as one word (the hyphen doesn't break it) while sentence count looks for periods, question marks, and exclamation points instead — two independent measurements of the same text that answer different questions.
Raw numbers are easier to judge against a reference point. As rough, commonly cited ranges: a tweet-length note runs well under 100 words; a typical blog post or article is often 800–1,500 words; a short story is commonly 1,000–7,500 words; and a novel is typically 70,000–100,000 words. None of these are hard rules — they're just useful benchmarks for gauging whether a draft is in the right neighborhood before worrying about the exact number.
Based on an average adult reading speed of around 200 words per minute — actual reading time varies by person and text complexity.
By counting punctuation marks that typically end a sentence — periods, question marks, and exclamation points. Unusual formatting or abbreviations can occasionally affect accuracy.
Word counting is based on whitespace-separated chunks, which works for most languages, though character-based languages like Chinese or Japanese count differently than word count implies.