Word Counter & Readability Checker — Free Text Analyzer (2026)
Live word, character, and readability counter. Check your text against social media character limits, measure Flesch reading ease scores, and analyze keyword density.
Whether you're writing a blog post, an academic essay, or a social media caption — word count and readability matter. Twitter caps at 280 characters. Instagram captions cut off at 2,200. LinkedIn posts engage best at 150-300 characters. And for blog SEO, 1,500-2,500 words is the sweet spot. The Word Counter gives you all these metrics live as you type.
What It Measures
- Word count: Standard whitespace-tokenized count (matches Microsoft Word)
- Character count: With and without spaces
- Line count & sentence count
- Flesch Reading Ease score: 60-70 is Standard, 70-80 is Fairly Easy, above 90 is Very Easy
- Keyword density: Top 8 most frequent meaningful words
FAQs
Does the word counter match Microsoft Word?
Yes — whitespace-tokenized, matching Word's count for English text.
What's a good readability score?
60-70 for general audiences. 80+ for consumer/children's content. Below 50 for academic/legal writing.
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