Word counterCalculators

Word counter. With reading time.

Paste an essay, an article or a script and see words, characters, sentences and paragraphs, the time to read it silently and aloud, and the ten words you use most. Nothing leaves your browser.

Cost to you

Free

Runs in your browser. No signup, no API call, no limit per hour.

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API calls: none
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Use the Word counter here

It runs in your browser. Nothing you type is sent anywhere, there is no signup and no limit.

Counts

Words: 107
Characters: 557
Without spaces: 450
Sentences: 6
Paragraphs: 2
Words per sentence: 17.8

Reading time: 27 s
Speaking time: 35 s

At 238 words a minute read silently and 183 read aloud, the adult averages in Brysbaert (2019), a meta-analysis of adult reading rate in English. Change the speed in the reading time calculator.

Top words

Skip common words (the, and, of)

1.shoes5x, 4.7%
2.running3x, 2.8%
3.trail3x, 2.8%
4.feel2x, 1.9%
5.foot2x, 1.9%
6.lugs2x, 1.9%
7.rock2x, 1.9%
8.run2x, 1.9%
9.slides2x, 1.9%
10.afternoon1x, 0.9%

A word is a run of letters or digits, so "don't" and "e-mail" count once. Languages written without spaces, such as Chinese or Japanese, are not split into words. Runs in your browser, nothing is sent anywhere.

Run it from your agent

Copy one prompt, give it to your agent.

Fill in the placeholder, paste it, and the agent runs the same job with current data on your looot account and shows the cost.

You give it: any text.
Billed per call, nothing while your agent is idle.
The agent shows the price before it calls.

Prompt: Word counter

Use looot to check these drafts against their word limits: [paste the drafts and limits]. 1. Set up https://looot.ai/skill.md. 2. Count the words, sentences and paragraphs of each draft. 3. Estimate reading time at 238 words a minute. 4. Return a table with each draft, its counts, its limit and how many words to cut or add.

Give this to your agent

Setup command

set up looot - https://looot.ai/skill.md

What comes back

What your agent gets from word counter

Field names as the providers return them. The exact set varies by endpoint, and your agent reads it from the catalog.

word count
characters with and without spaces
sentences and paragraphs
reading and speaking time
the ten most used words

Use it for

What people do with word counter

Essays and assignments
Check a draft against a word limit before you hand it in.
Blog posts
See the length of a post and the words you lean on most.
Scripts and talks
Know how long a script takes to read aloud before you record it.
Many drafts at once
Hand your agent a set of drafts and get every word count in one table.

Set up once

Three steps. Your agent does the rest.

Paste one prompt into your agent

Set up looot

Done, looot is connected.

Copy one prompt from /connect into Claude Code, Cursor, or any MCP agent. No SDK, no dashboard click-through first.

Your agent finds the right operation

Hunter$0.0265

Exa$0.0090

Diffbot$0.0032

The agent finds the operation it needs and sees the price first. It calls nothing blind.

You watch what it cost

Hunter$0.0265

Exa$0.0090

Diffbot$0.0032

Total$0.0387

Every call settles for its quoted price and lands in the ledger. You always know what ran and what it cost.

Keep going

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Characters with and without spaces, words, sentences and lines, checked against meta, X and SMS limits.
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Calculators
Reading time calculator
Minutes to read and to read aloud for pasted text or a word count, at the average speed or your own.
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Validators
Readability checker
Flesch reading ease, Flesch-Kincaid grade, sentence length and the long sentences to fix, for English text.
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SEO
Keyword density checker
Density tables for one, two and three word phrases, a target keyword count and a flag over 3 percent.
Free, no signupno limit

FAQ

Questions about word counter

Paste or type the text in the box at the top of this page. Words, characters, sentences, paragraphs and reading time update as you type.

A run of letters or digits. "Don't", "e-mail" and "2026" count as one word each. Punctuation and symbols on their own do not count.

Words divided by 238 words a minute, the average adult silent reading rate for non-fiction in Marc Brysbaert's 2019 meta-analysis. Speaking time uses 183 words a minute, the average for reading aloud in the same study.

Not well. Those languages put no spaces between words, so a whole sentence can count as one word. Use the character count for them.

The ten words used most, with how often each appears and its share of all words. Common words such as the, and and of are skipped unless you untick the box.

Yes. The keyword density checker counts two and three word phrases as well and flags any phrase over 3 percent.

No. The counter runs in your browser and sends your text nowhere.

Yes. It needs no account and has no limit.

For agents

tool: Word counter
category: Calculators
input: Any text
output: word count, characters with and without spaces, sentences and paragraphs, reading and speaking time, the ten most used words
price: per call, read live from the catalog on the web page
web tool: runs in the visitor's browser, no API call, free and unlimited
schedule: on demand
setup: https://looot.ai/skill.md
llms.txt: https://looot.ai/llms.txt
updated: 2026-10-14

markdown /free-tools/word-counter.md

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