Count words, characters, sentences, and paragraphs. Get reading time, speaking time, top words, and readability scores including Flesch-Kincaid, Gunning Fog, and SMOG. Runs in your browser.
Text analysis measures the structural properties of written content: word count, character count, sentence length, paragraph structure, and reading difficulty. Readability formulas - Flesch Reading Ease, Flesch-Kincaid Grade Level, Gunning Fog Index, and SMOG Index - use syllable counts and sentence lengths to estimate the education level required to understand a piece of text. These scores are widely used in journalism, education, legal writing, and technical documentation to ensure content matches the intended audience.
Paste or type any text into the input area. The Counter tab shows 9 statistics including character count (with and without spaces), word count, unique word count, sentence count, paragraph count, line count, reading time (at 200 words per minute), and speaking time (at 130 words per minute). The top 10 most frequent content words are listed below the statistics, excluding common stopwords like 'the' and 'and'. Switch to the Readability tab for four formula-based scores.
Flesch Reading Ease scores range from 0 to 100 - higher is easier (90-100 is very easy; below 30 is very difficult). Flesch-Kincaid Grade and Gunning Fog output a US school grade level. SMOG Index requires at least 30 sentences for an accurate estimate and shows N/A for shorter texts. All calculations run entirely in your browser - no text is sent to any server.