Writing Desk / 01
Count words, characters, sentences, and paragraphs as you write. Explore reading time, word frequency, and simple text formatting tools.
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This uses the same grapheme-based character count as the margin. Publishing platforms may count differently, so a 280 result is not a guarantee for every social counter.
Characters used: 0
Characters remaining: 280
Percent of limit: 0%
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Reading time is an estimate based on the selected words-per-minute rate. Actual reading speed varies. Times are rounded to the nearest second.
Estimated reading time: 0 minutes 0 seconds
Words: 0 · Selected reading rate: 200 WPM
Pauses, emphasis, and presentation style can change actual speaking duration. This estimate does not model pauses.
Estimated speaking time: 0 minutes 0 seconds
Words: 0 · Selected rate: 130 WPM
This ranking describes the text in the editor. It does not grade writing and it does not predict search rankings. Words are lowercased and counted with the same segmentation as the main counter.
No words to analyze yet.
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Lookup matches a whole counted word after lowercasing. It does not count letters inside a longer word.
Title Case keeps a short list of English function words lowercase unless they are first or last. Sentence case capitalizes after . ? ! — an approximation, not grammar correction. Choose a mode, preview, then apply.
Preview
Restore Original brings back the editor text from immediately before the last apply. It is one stored version, not unlimited history.
Preview first. Paragraph breaks are kept unless you choose to collapse extra blank lines.
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After
Processing order: normalize line endings, then empty-line handling, then duplicate removal, then sorting. Equal-length lines keep their earlier order. Duplicate removal keeps the first occurrence in that sequence.
Original line count: 0 · Resulting: 0 · Removed: 0
A word is a word-like segment from the English word segmenter, or a letter/number run with internal apostrophes or hyphens in the fallback. Example: well-known is typically one word; !!! is none. Confusion: two processors can split hyphens differently. See the live word counter.
A character here is a grapheme cluster: what you perceive as one unit, including many emoji. Letters are only alphabetic graphemes. Example: “café” is four characters. Confusion: UTF-16 length is not the visible length. Open the character counter.
The full count includes spaces, tabs, and newlines. The tight count drops whitespace graphemes only. Example: “a b” is 3 vs 2. Confusion: some apps exclude only spaces and keep line breaks. Check the character limit instrument.
Sentences are segmented automatically. “Dr. Lane arrived.” may become two pieces. Example: “Hello. Hello!” is two. Confusion: missing final punctuation still yields a sentence if the segmenter keeps the block. See sentences and paragraphs.
Paragraphs are nonempty blocks split by blank lines. A wrap inside a block is not a new paragraph. Example: two lines with no blank between them are one paragraph. Confusion: word processors sometimes count every Shift+Enter as a paragraph. Same rule lives on the paragraph counter.
Minutes = words / selected WPM, then rounded to the nearest second. 200 words at 200 WPM is 1:00. Confusion: the number is not a stopwatch. Open the reading time calculator.
Counts are lowercased whole words. Hiding common function words does not change the share denominator. Example: “The the river” gives the 2/3 if stops are shown. Confusion: “the” inside “them” is not counted. Use word frequency.
Case and cleanup tools preview first. Example: two spaces become one when collapse is on, while a blank line between paragraphs can remain. Confusion: cleanup is not spellcheck. Try text cleanup and the case converter.
Margin Meter provides independent browser-based tools for measuring and formatting text. Analysis stays in this browser.
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