Content Word Statistics

What this tool measures

This tool runs a full structural analysis of a block of text: character count (with and without whitespace), word count, sentence count, paragraph count, average word length, average sentence length, estimated reading time (at 200 words/minute) and speaking time (at 130 words/minute), plus the single longest word and longest sentence in the piece.

These aren't readability scores — they're raw counting statistics. Sentence and paragraph boundaries are detected with simple punctuation and blank-line rules, which is reliable for normal prose but can undercount if you use abbreviations like "e.g." or "Dr." heavily, since a period followed by a space is treated as a sentence end.

When to use it

Use it when you need a quick length and pacing check before publishing — confirming a blog post hits a target word count, checking that a meta description or social caption fits length limits, or estimating how long a video script will take to read aloud. The average sentence length figure is also a fast proxy for how dense your writing is: a body of text averaging 30+ words per sentence usually reads as heavy, regardless of vocabulary.

Content teams use it alongside the AI Readability Score tool for a fuller picture: word statistics tell you the shape of the content (length, pacing), while readability scores tell you how hard it is to parse for a given grade level.

Example

Paste a 500-word product description and the tool reports something like 512 words, 28 sentences, 4 paragraphs, average sentence length 18.3 words, reading time "3 min", speaking time "4 min" — plus the longest sentence in the piece, which is often worth manually splitting in two if it exceeds 40 words.