Word count is the number you always need and never quite know without stopping to check. Blog posts, essays, email newsletters, LinkedIn posts, cover letters — they all have limits or targets, and eyeballing it never works. The free online word counter shows six stats simultaneously as you type: words, characters, characters without spaces, sentences, paragraphs, reading time, and speaking time. No install, no login. What gets counted and how Words — splits on whitespace, filters empty tokens. "Hello world" counts as 2, not 3. Characters — total length of the string including spaces, punctuation, and newlines. Characters (no spaces) — same as above with all whitespace stripped. This is the number Twitter/X and LinkedIn character limits actually use. Sentences — splits on . , ! , and ? . Each non-empty segment after splitting counts as one sentence. Paragraphs — splits on line breaks. Each non-empty block of text counts as one paragraph.…