Why word and character limits matter
Many forms set strict limits. University and job applications ask for essays of a set number of words, government and visa portals limit the characters in a field, and social posts, SMS messages and SEO meta descriptions get cut off when they run long. Checking the count before you submit saves you from a rejected form or a truncated message.
How we count Arabic text
Simple counters split text on spaces, which can miscount Arabic punctuation, emoji and characters with diacritics. This tool uses your browser's language-aware text segmentation, so each Arabic word counts once, the Arabic question mark ends a sentence, and a letter with tashkeel or an emoji with a skin tone counts as one character, as a reader would see it.
Reading and speaking time
Reading time assumes about 200 words a minute, a typical pace for adults reading on screen. Speaking time assumes about 130 words a minute, a comfortable pace for a presentation or speech. Use them as a guide: a five-minute talk is roughly 650 words, and a blog post of 1,000 words takes about five minutes to read.
Use the repeated-words list to edit
The list of most repeated words shows which words of three letters or more appear most often. If one word keeps coming up, try a synonym or rewrite the sentence. For SEO writing it also shows whether your main keyword appears naturally, without stuffing it into every line.