Do punctuation marks count as words?
No. Punctuation separates or surrounds detected words.
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“One short sentence.” contains three words, 19 characters including spaces, and one sentence.
Words are detected from Unicode letters and numbers. Characters use Unicode code points; reading time assumes about 200 words per minute.
Word boundaries vary by language, so counts for languages without spaces are approximations.
No. Punctuation separates or surrounds detected words.
The tool reports both total characters and characters without whitespace.
No. Counting happens locally on each input change.