Paste or type text to see useful writing statistics. Foxger counts words, visible characters, sentences, paragraphs, lines, and more locally in your browser.
New to word counts? Read the step-by-step beginner guide
Statistics refresh shortly after you pause typing. No submission is needed.
500,000 character limit
Values update together after the short counting delay.
Locale helps the browser find language-appropriate boundaries. Speeds affect only the two time estimates.
Enter a BCP 47 language tag, or leave empty to use the browser locale.
Browser locale will be used.
Words per minute, from 50 to 1,000.
Words per minute, from 50 to 1,000.
Foxger will use this browser’s text-segmentation support when counting begins.
Café notes help 3 students plan a project. 🙂 They read together.
Tomorrow, the group will share its ideas and ask questions.The example includes punctuation, the number 3, an emoji, and the accented wordCafé. Select Load example to let your browser calculate its totals.
The guide explains words, graphemes, whitespace, bytes, multilingual boundaries, and time estimates in plain language. It also shows why two programs can report different totals.
New to word counts? Read the step-by-step guideThis guide explains each total in the counter, how language can change boundaries, and how to read estimates without treating them as exact predictions. No previous Unicode or writing software knowledge is needed.
Back to the counterA word counter measures pieces of text. Paste a draft into the box near the top of this page, pause briefly, and read the statistics. The input is not rewritten.
The word total answers one question, while character, sentence, paragraph, line, byte, and time totals answer other questions. Start with the limit or goal you were given, then choose the matching statistic.
The counter helps when you need length or structure measurements. It does not review the writing.
Foxger asks Intl.Segmenter, when available, to divide text into word-like parts for the resolved locale. It does not count by splitting only at ordinary spaces. That matters for punctuation and for languages that do not place a space between every word.
one two still has two word-like parts.don’t together as one word-like segment.well-known is one or two words.2026 can be marked as word-like.When Intl.Segmenter is unavailable, Foxger uses a smaller local fallback based on letters, marks, numbers, and internal apostrophes. The tool identifies that fallback in Advanced settings.
People often say “character” for anything typed. Computers need more precise units. Foxger’sVisible characters statistic counts grapheme clusters: units a reader usually sees as one character.
é can be stored as one code point or as e plus a combining accent. Both can appear as one grapheme.
👨👩👧👦 joins several people with invisible joiners, yet a reader commonly sees one family symbol.
Characters including whitespace and excluding whitespacecount Unicode code points. They are useful technical totals, but the visible-character total is the better first choice when a displayed character should count once.
Whitespace is the group of characters used to separate or arrange text. It includes ordinary spaces, tabs, and line breaks. Some writing systems also use less familiar space characters.
A sentence is a unit of expression, often ending with a full stop, question mark, or exclamation mark. The browser uses language-sensitive boundary rules, not punctuation alone.
Sentence detection remains an estimate. Abbreviations such as Dr., initials, decimal numbers, dialogue punctuation, and incomplete notes can be interpreted differently by different programs.
A line is text between line breaks. Foxger counts a non-empty text as one line, then adds a line for each line break. A final line break therefore creates another empty line.
A paragraph is a non-empty block separated from another block by at least one blank line. A single line break inside a block changes the line total but keeps one paragraph.
First paragraph, line one.
Line two of the same paragraph.
Second paragraph.A byte measures digital data. Foxger uses TextEncoder to measure the input after UTF-8 encoding. Ordinary English letters often need one byte each, while accented letters, non-Latin writing, and emoji can need more.
The byte total measures the text content, not a complete saved file. A file can also contain metadata or a byte-order mark, and another encoding can produce a different size.
Foxger divides the word total by a speed in words per minute. The default reading speed is 225 words per minute. The default speaking speed is 130 words per minute.
Zero words produces 0 min. Short text produces Less than 1 minute. Longer results round upward to a readable whole-minute estimate. You can enter a speed from 50 to 1,000 under Advanced settings.
These labels and controls appear in the counter near the top of the page.
Accepts the original text. Counting does not replace or reformat it.
Counts word-like segments for the resolved locale.
Counts grapheme clusters, including combined emoji and accented forms as readers commonly perceive them.
Counts Unicode code points, including spaces, tabs, and line breaks.
Counts the same code-point units after leaving out whitespace.
Counts language-sensitive sentence segments that contain non-whitespace text.
Paragraphs use blank-line separation. Lines use every line break.
Measures how many bytes the entered text requires in UTF-8.
Counts distinct word-like segments without treating letter case as a difference. Unicode-equivalent accents are normalized for this comparison.
Divide words by the reading and speaking speeds shown in Advanced settings.
Accepts an optional BCP 47 tag such as en, es, ja, or th. The resolved locale is shown below the field.
Copy and Download use the unchanged input. Load example replaces the input with the documented example. Clear removes the input after you select it.
The tool and this guide use the following text:
Café notes help 3 students plan a project. 🙂 They read together.
Tomorrow, the group will share its ideas and ask questions.It has two paragraphs and includes punctuation, the number 3, an emoji, and an accented letter. Select Load example in the counter to see totals from your browser.
Use these steps with the complete example or your own text.
Use a draft, speech, homework answer, message, or other text whose length you need to understand. Keep a separate copy when the original matters.
Place the text in the “Text to count” box. The counter waits briefly after typing, then refreshes every statistic together.
Words help with assignment or publishing limits. Visible characters are useful when one displayed emoji or accented letter should count as one unit.
Sentences, paragraphs, and lines describe different parts of the layout. A line break is not automatically a new paragraph.
Enter a locale such as en, es, ja, or th. Leave the field empty when the browser locale is suitable.
Change reading or speaking words per minute only when you have a useful speed to test. The range is 50 to 1,000.
Check which statistic the requirement names. A “500-word limit” is different from a “500-character limit.”
Copy sends the unchanged input to your clipboard. Download creates a local UTF-8 text file named foxger-word-counter-text.txt.
Text counting has choices. Two programs can disagree without either program losing text.
When a formal limit matters, use the counting method named by the person or system that set it.
Languages do not all mark words and sentences in the same way. Japanese, Chinese, and Thai can need boundary rules that do not depend on ordinary spaces. Arabic and other right-to-left scripts also remain valid Unicode input.
Enter the main language’s locale under Advanced settings when it is known. Mixed-language text still has one selected locale, so no single choice describes every part equally well. Foxger does not install a large language polyfill in this release.
Pause briefly after typing. If nothing changes, confirm JavaScript is enabled and reload the page. The guide remains readable without JavaScript.
Use a BCP 47 tag such as en or en-GB, with a hyphen rather than an underscore. Foxger shows the fallback locale it used.
Check the selected locale and the kind of statistic. Apostrophes, hyphens, emoji, abbreviations, and language rules are common reasons for a difference.
Open Advanced settings and enter a more suitable words-per-minute value from 50 to 1,000. Treat the result as a planning estimate.
The hard limit is 500,000 characters. Your text remains in the input. Copy, download, or shorten it to resume counting.
👨👩👧👦 to the end.Question: Why can one new visible symbol add several code points and bytes?
Answer: A displayed emoji can be a grapheme built from several Unicode code points, and each code point needs bytes when encoded as UTF-8.
Foxger uses the browser’s locale-sensitive Intl.Segmenter word boundaries when available and counts segments the browser marks as word-like. An older browser receives a documented local fallback, so another editor may show a slightly different total.
A grapheme is what a reader usually sees as one character. One emoji or an accented letter can be built from several Unicode code points while still appearing as one visible character.
Characters including whitespace count Unicode code points such as letters, punctuation, spaces, and line breaks. Characters excluding whitespace leave out spaces, tabs, and line breaks. The visible-character total instead follows grapheme boundaries.
Programs can use different rules for apostrophes, hyphens, numbers, emoji, abbreviations, and languages without spaces. Browser versions and selected locales can also affect segmentation.
Foxger divides the word total by the selected speed. The defaults are 225 words per minute for reading and 130 for speaking. These are planning estimates, not measurements of a particular person.
No. It reports mechanical statistics. It does not check facts, grammar, spelling, tone, clarity, or whether the writing suits its audience.
No. Counting runs locally in your browser. Foxger does not upload the text, add it to the page URL, or store it in local storage, session storage, cookies, or a database.
Foxger warns after 100,000 characters and stops counting above 500,000 characters to protect the browser tab. The entered text remains in the input so you can shorten, copy, or download it.
The guide summarizes these browser and internationalisation references in original language.
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