Character and word counter

How to use

1. Type or paste your text into the box.
2. Character counts (with and without spaces and line breaks), the word count, sentences, paragraphs, lines and bytes update as you type. Open "Counting rules" to see exactly how each number is counted.
3. Enter a character limit, or pick one of the preset buttons, to see how many characters are left or how far over you are.

Notes and limits

• Sites and forms count characters in different ways. If a form has its own rule, follow that rule.
• Word counts follow Unicode word boundaries and can differ from word processors, especially for hyphenated words, URLs and text written without spaces (Japanese, Chinese, Thai).
• If your browser does not support Intl.Segmenter, the word count falls back to counting space-separated pieces, and the page tells you so.
• Your text is not saved and disappears when you close the page.

How it works

Characters are counted as user-perceived characters (grapheme clusters), so an emoji sequence such as a family emoji or a flag counts as 1, and a letter with a combining accent counts as 1. A line break counts as 1 character, including Windows CRLF line breaks. Spaces include regular spaces, full-width spaces and tabs.

Words are counted with the browser's Intl.Segmenter using word granularity. Every segment the browser marks as word-like (a run of letters or digits) is one word. Spaces, line breaks, punctuation and emoji are never counted as words.

English and Korean words are separated by spaces. "don't" and "3,000.50" count as one word each, while "well-known" counts as two and a URL is split at its punctuation. Japanese and Chinese have no spaces, so the browser splits them with a dictionary and the count is an estimate.

The segmenter is created with the page language, but current browsers choose word boundaries from the script of each part of the text, so English, Korean and Japanese mixed in one text are each handled by their own rules on every language version of this page.

"Space-separated words" counts the pieces between spaces and line breaks that contain a letter or digit. For Korean this equals the spacing units (eojeol); for Japanese or Chinese text it is not meaningful.

Sentences are counted with Intl.Segmenter sentence boundaries: a sentence ends at . ! ? (or their full-width forms) followed by a space, and at each line break. Only pieces with a letter or digit count. Abbreviations such as "Mr." also end a sentence, so treat the number as an estimate.