Character Counter

How to count characters in a text

1. Paste text into the box (Ctrl+V) or type it - the results update as you type.
2. The top row shows characters with and without spaces, words, and sentences. The detailed statistics below cover text composition, paragraphs, page count, reading time, and frequent words.
3. Need the length of just part of the text? Select it, and a count for that fragment appears under the box.
4. If your text must fit a limit, enter it or choose a platform from the list. The bar shows roughly how much room is left. The exact result may differ because of the platform's rules.

Characters with or without spaces: which count should you use?

The "with spaces" count is the full length of the text: letters, digits, punctuation, spaces, and line breaks. The "without spaces" count excludes spaces, tabs, and line breaks. The right count depends on the task:

• Copywriting and content platforms sometimes use character counts without spaces. This prevents extra spaces from inflating the total and makes rates per 1,000 characters easy to calculate.
• Translation and publishing often use counts that include spaces. For example, in many European countries, a standard translation page contains 1,800 characters.
• Social media, SMS and meta tags usually count spaces, but may treat links, emoji and some symbols in their own way.

Limits and guidelines for popular platforms

A quick reference - the same values are available in the "Limits and guidelines" list below the box.

The built-in limit check uses the standard visible-character count. It does not reproduce SMS encoding or X's weighted algorithm, so verify an important post on the platform itself.

How the counter counts

• Character - what you see as a single symbol. An emoji 👍🏽 or a letter with an accent is one character, even if it consists of several code points.
• Word - a sequence of letters or digits. A hyphen or apostrophe inside a word does not split it, and a website address also counts as one word. Thus, "well-known", "2024", and "open-urls.com" each count as one word, while a dash on its own is not a word.
• Sentence - the counter detects sentences by periods, exclamation and question marks, ellipses, and paragraph breaks. It recognizes common abbreviations and initials, but in ambiguous text the automatic result may differ from an editor's.
• Paragraph - a non-empty line; blank lines don't count.

What else the statistics show

• Text composition - counts letters (Latin and Cyrillic separately), digits, punctuation marks, and other symbols. These categories, together with spaces and line breaks, add up exactly to the character count.
• Mixed alphabets - the counter warns you when Latin and Cyrillic letters are mixed in one word, for example "cоpy" with a Cyrillic "о", and highlights the mismatched letters. This can happen when typing with the wrong keyboard layout or pasting copied text; an exact search may not find the word.
• Frequent words - repeated words excluding common function words, plus each word's share of all words in the text. Inflected forms are counted separately.
• Length - an estimated page count based on about 500 words per single-spaced page and 250 per double-spaced page.
• Reading and speaking time - estimated at 238 words per minute for silent reading and 150 for speaking.

Your text stays with you

The site processes the text in your browser and does not send the contents of the box to a server. To help prevent your work from being lost if you accidentally reload the page, the counter stores a local copy in browser storage when it is available. When you return, the box opens with your text already in it. No sign-up is needed; there is no artificial length limit, and texts up to 200,000 characters can be saved in the browser.