Word Counter

Overview

• Counts a text's characters, characters without whitespace, words, and lines in real time as you type.
• Characters are counted by Unicode grapheme units, so emoji and combining characters (such as accented letters) are each correctly counted as one character.
• Useful when you need to precisely track character count, such as for a social media character limit or managing a manuscript's length.

Usage

1. Enter the text you want to count into the text area.
2. As you type, the character count, character count without whitespace, word count, and line count are displayed in real time.

Example

hello world

Characters: 11, Characters (no whitespace): 10, Words: 2, Lines: 1

Use Cases

• Checking that text with a character limit, such as a social media post or title, stays within the limit
• Checking the character and line count of a manuscript or report before submitting it
• Comparing character and word counts between an original text and its translation during translation or proofreading

FAQ

Notes

• Word count relies on whitespace separation, so for Japanese text, which does not use spaces between words, use the character count as the primary metric instead.
• Emoji, including those made of surrogate pairs, are correctly counted as a single character.
• The entered content exists only on the page and is lost on reload.