About Word Counter
This word counter updates with every keystroke, which helps when an essay has a 1,500-word limit, a meta description must stay under 160 characters, or a speech has to fit a five-minute slot. Paste your text or open a TXT, Markdown or subtitle file and you get words, characters with and without spaces, sentences, paragraphs and lines. Text pasted from a PDF or web page often carries extra spaces and blank lines, which Text Cleaner removes before you count.
Reading time assumes 238 words a minute and speaking time 140. Each Chinese or Japanese character counts as one word, as in Microsoft Word, and they also get their own total; Korean, which puts spaces between words, is counted word by word like English. The Most used words list shows your top 10 terms with their share of the text, skipping filler such as "the" and "and", so repeated keywords stand out. The text stays in your browser. Words you've used too often can be swapped throughout with Find and Replace Text.
How to use Word Counter
- 1Paste or type text
Type in the box, paste from anywhere, or click Open file for a TXT, Markdown, CSV or subtitle file.
- 2Read the counts
The word counter updates words, characters, sentences, paragraphs, lines and times as you type.
- 3Check your keywords
Scroll to Most used words to see which terms you repeat and how often.
Why use Cubfile for this
- Nine live counts
Words, characters, characters without spaces, Chinese characters, sentences, paragraphs, lines, reading time and speaking time.
- CJK counted properly
Chinese and Japanese characters each count as one word, next to English and Korean words in the same text.
- Keyword density
Your top 10 words with how many times each appears and its percentage of the text.
- Private and remembered
Nothing is uploaded, and your draft stays in this browser until you click Clear.