Counts refresh about a quarter of a second after you stop typing, so you can bring a draft down to a limit and watch it happen. A word is any run of characters with no space in it, and characters are counted twice over, once with the spaces and once without. Your text stays in the page, which is worth knowing when it is a contract or something unpublished.
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Any run of characters with no space in it. A hyphenated word, a URL and a number each count as one, and so does a dash left standing between two spaces.
Words divided by 200, the usual figure for adult reading on screen, rounded to whole minutes and never shown as less than one. Up to 299 words it reads as one minute, and at 300 it turns over to two.
A sentence is counted at every full stop, question mark or exclamation mark that has a space or the end of the text behind it, so an abbreviation like Dr. adds one, while a full stop with nothing after it does not. A paragraph is a block set off by a blank line, so a list of single-spaced lines counts as one.
Usually as two. The count follows the way the browser stores text, where most emoji take two places. A compound one takes more: a flag counts as four and a family of three as eight. Accented letters take one, unless the accent was typed as a separate mark after a plain letter.
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