A word is any run of letters or digits: hyphens and apostrophes join (well-known, don't = one word each), while spaces and em dashes separate. Decimal numbers split on the point (3.14 counts as two), and emoji count as zero â they are symbols, not words. Chinese, Japanese, and Thai text is segmented without spaces using each language's native word boundaries (via Intl.Segmenter).
Counting runs completely on your local device with native JavaScript. Nothing you write or drop is uploaded to any server.
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No. Your document is read strictly inside your browser's memory using HTML5 FileReader APIs. Formatting is stripped and only clean text is analyzed.
Reading time uses the standard benchmark of 200 words per minute (WPM). Speaking time uses the conversational average of 130 words per minute.
Yes. Our tokenizer rules for hyphens, contractions, and punctuation boundaries strictly mirror the industry standard counting methods used in Word and Docs.