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An essay to cut down, a caption to fit or a draft to check: paste your text and see the counts change as you edit. Free to use, with no sign-up.
Your text is counted only on this page. It is not uploaded or saved.
See how much you have written and where there is room to trim
Check an English essay, a Chinese draft or a mix of both. See the combined word total alongside separate CJK character and Latin word counts.
Shorten a sentence or add a paragraph and see the counts update as you edit. Keep the numbers in view while you work toward a limit.
Use the counter for an unfinished essay, a private note or a passage you are still working on. Your text is counted only on this page and is not uploaded or saved.
See an estimated reading time for a newsletter, article or class handout. Use it as a guide when deciding whether a section needs to be shorter.
Wherever a limit is part of the assignment
Course briefs come with a word range. Check where you stand before you submit, not after.
Compare shorter versions of a page title or description and put the key message first. Character counts help you edit; search results may still shorten the text.
Trim a caption or ad to a character target before publishing. Check the final text in the destination app too, since platforms can count emoji and links differently.
Check the length of each version before a translation goes to layout. Separate counts help when the original and translation use different writing systems.
Chinese, Japanese and Korean characters are counted individually, and everything else is split on whitespace with tokens counted only if they contain a letter or a digit. The word total is the sum of the two. For example, 你好world counts as 3: two Chinese characters plus one English word.
No. The counter uses your text only on this page and does not upload or save it. Copy any changes you want to keep before leaving or refreshing the page.
For the word total, CJK characters count individually and other text is split into words at whitespace. Character count also includes punctuation and spaces; the count without spaces excludes all whitespace, including line breaks. Combined emoji may count as several characters here. Check your destination's rules if you need an exact match.
Latin words are divided by 200 per minute and CJK characters by 400 per minute, then added and rounded up. Text containing counted words or CJK characters reports at least one minute. This is a rough guide; the reader, the subject and reading aloud can change the time needed.
No. Counting and editing text on this page are free and need no account. To write in the Muses editor, sign in and paste your text there; this page does not transfer it automatically. AI writing uses your account's available credits.
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