Text statistics
Count words, characters, sentences, paragraphs and lines, with reading- and speaking-time estimates. Runs in your browser; nothing is uploaded.
About this tool
Text statistics breaks down any text into the numbers writers and editors care about:
- Words and characters (with and without spaces)
- Sentences (runs ending in
.,!, or?) - Paragraphs (blocks separated by blank lines) and lines
- Reading time (≈200 words/minute) and speaking time (≈130 words/minute)
- Average word length and average words per sentence (quick readability signals)
Privacy
Everything runs in your browser via WebAssembly — your text is never uploaded to a server. You can also run it from the gizza CLI or inside a gizza chat, which return the same numbers as structured JSON.
Common uses
- Check an essay, article, or social post against a word/character limit.
- Estimate how long a script will take to read aloud.
- Get a fast readability sense from sentence length and word length.
FAQ
How are words counted — what about hyphens and numbers?
A word is any run of characters between whitespace, so state-of-the-art counts
as one word and 3.14 counts as a word too. The average word length stat
is smarter: it counts only letters and digits, ignoring attached punctuation like
a trailing period, so it reflects real word size.
How does the sentence count handle "?!", "..." and missing final periods?
A sentence ends at a run of ., !, or ? — so ?! and ... each close a
single sentence, not two or three. Text that trails off without any terminator
still counts as one final sentence, which means a one-line note like
hello world reports 1 sentence rather than 0.
What reading speed do the time estimates assume?
Reading time is words ÷ 200 wpm (average silent reading) and speaking time is words ÷ 130 wpm (a comfortable presentation pace), each rounded to one decimal minute. If you speak faster or slower, scale accordingly — the word count is the reliable number.
What's the difference between paragraphs and lines?
Lines are physical newlines; paragraphs are blocks of text separated by at least one blank line. A hard-wrapped paragraph of five lines therefore counts as 5 lines but 1 paragraph — handy to know when your editor wraps text automatically.
Developer & Automation Access
Run it from the terminal
Same engine as this page, headless — via the gizza CLI:
gizza tool text-statistics "Paste or type your text here…"New to the CLI? Get gizza →
Open it by URL
Pre-fill and auto-run this tool with query parameters — the names match the API/CLI:
https://gizza.ai/tools/text-statistics/?text=Paste%20or%20type%20your%20text%20here%E2%80%A6Machine-readable descriptor: tool.json — title + parameters JSON Schema for agents.