Word & Character Counter (English and Hindi)

What your result means

The two large numbers are words and characters including spaces. The cards give characters without spaces, code units (the count that form limits and SMS use), sentences, paragraphs, lines, reading time, speaking time and average word length, followed by the most used words and the longest word.

For Hindi and other Indic scripts the character figures count letters the way you read them, not the way computers store them, which is the difference most online counters get wrong.

How to use this word counter

1. Type or paste your text into the box; the counts update as you type.
2. Change the reading speed if you want reading time for a slower or faster reader.
3. Use Copy result to paste the summary into a message, or Clear to start again.

How counting works, with a worked example

Words come from language-aware segmentation (Intl.Segmenter), characters are grapheme clusters (a base letter plus its matras and virama-joined consonants), sentences end at . ! ? । ॥, and paragraphs are separated by a blank line.

reading time  = words ÷ 200 per minute   (adjustable)
speaking time = words ÷ 130 per minute

Worked example (computed by this tool’s own function):

• “Hello world. This is ToolJagat! / Second paragraph here?” → 8 words, 55 characters (47 without spaces), 3 sentences, 2 paragraphs
• “नमस्ते दुनिया। यह एक वाक्य है!” → 6 words, 20 characters as read, 30 code units, 2 sentences

Characters vs code units for Hindi words

Typical limits for reference

These are common values at the time of writing; check the service’s own rules.

Special cases and common mistakes

• Hyphenated and apostrophe words. “state-of-the-art” counts as several words; “don’t” counts as one, following Unicode word rules.
• Numbers and symbols. “2026” is a word; a lone ”₹” or ”%” is not.
• Line breaks vs paragraphs. A single line break does not start a new paragraph; leave an empty line between paragraphs.
• Trailing spaces. Spaces at the ends of lines count towards characters with spaces; they are removed from the without-spaces figure.
• Mixed scripts. English and Hindi in the same text are counted together with the same rules.
• Very long texts. Counting runs in your browser; a few hundred thousand characters is fine, but a whole book may be slow on an old phone.