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Word Counter

Count words, characters, sentences, and paragraphs in real time. Reading time estimate included.

Why count the words in your text?

Word count is a fundamental metric for any author, student, or content creator. Whether you're writing a novel, a thesis, a blog post, or a cover letter, knowing your text length matters.

For fiction writers, word count determines your work's format: short story (under 10,000 words), novella (20,000-50,000), novel (70,000-100,000). Publishers and literary agents systematically request word count in submission packages.

For students, meeting a strict word limit is often a hard requirement. Our counter helps you stay on target without manual counting.

For content writers, article length directly impacts SEO: Google favors 1,500-2,500 word articles for informational queries.

Reading time is calculated at three speeds: slow (150 wpm), average (250 wpm), and fast (350 wpm). Useful for estimating speech duration, presentation length, or chapter pacing.

Go further with Extypis

Extypis displays these statistics in real time as you write, plus a readability score, repetition detection, and custom writing goals.

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The whole studio

Everything our writing app puts in your hands

Five areas, from the first outline to the file ready to send: everything you ask of a writing app. Here is what each one covers.

Hold your story, from outline to final page.

Narrative tools you won't find elsewhere — turn a tangle of ideas into a structure that holds.

The AI reads your project before it suggests anything

Outline, profiles and the scenes you have written: the AI uses them to stay true to your book when it rewrites, continues, summarises or draws a cover. Every suggestion waits for your approval.

Daily writing comfort

Everything that makes long-form writing sustainable: shortcuts, templates, anchored notes, versions, goals.

Analyse and refine your prose

Proofreading, readability, repetitions, connectives, passive voice, emotions and versification: each flagged passage comes with its reason and is one click away in the text.

What you write is what you export.

Your text is laid out as you type, in the format of your PDF. All that is left is to pick the file format, or to publish on Extypis.

Lifetime updates

Every future Extypis innovation included, no extra cost, no paywall.

Backing an indie project

Extypis is an independent, self-funded project — no ads, no venture capital.

Human support

Got a question? You talk directly to the creator, never a chatbot.

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