Character and word counter
Paste your text and the Character & Word Counter instantly counts characters, characters without spaces, words, sentences and paragraphs. It is ideal for staying within post limits, meta descriptions, SMS messages or school assignments. Everything runs locally in your browser — no text is ever uploaded and there is nothing to install.
How the Character & Word Counter works
The tool takes the text you type or paste into the field and calculates five metrics in real time. Nothing is sent to a server — the computation happens directly in your browser on every keystroke.
- Characters — the total length of the text including spaces, line breaks and punctuation (all typed symbols).
- Characters without spaces — the length after removing all whitespace (spaces, tabs, line breaks).
- Words — the number of continuous groups of non-space characters separated by spaces.
- Sentences — the number of segments ending with a period, question mark or exclamation mark.
- Paragraphs — the number of text blocks separated by a blank line.
A character is counted as the browser sees it (Unicode). For ordinary Latin letters and accented characters, the count matches what you would tally by hand. Note: some emoji and special symbols are made of multiple code units, so they may occasionally count as two characters.
How to use the Character & Word Counter
- Click into the text field and paste or type your text.
- The counts update instantly — there is no button to press and nothing to confirm.
- Watch the tiles: characters, characters without spaces, words, sentences and paragraphs.
- Edit the text and the numbers recalculate in real time.
Example input and result for the short text “Hello world. How are you?”:
| Metric | Value |
|---|---|
| Characters | 25 |
| Characters without spaces | 21 |
| Words | 5 |
| Sentences | 2 |
| Paragraphs | 1 |
What the Character & Word Counter is good for
Copywriters, students, social media managers and developers all use this tool. Typical scenarios:
- Social media limits — keeping a post within length (e.g. the character limit on X/Twitter, Instagram captions).
- SEO meta descriptions and titles — keeping a title to about 60 characters and a meta description to about 160 characters.
- SMS messages — checking how many characters a message has and whether it fits into a single SMS.
- School and academic work — checking the word limit of essays, abstracts or annotations.
- Proofreading — a quick overview of a text's length and structure (number of sentences and paragraphs).
Because the entire calculation runs in your browser, you can safely paste even sensitive or unpublished text — the data never leaves your device and is not stored anywhere.
FAQ
Does the tool count spaces as characters?
Yes. The "characters" tile includes spaces, tabs and line breaks. If you need the length without spaces, watch the "characters without spaces" tile.
How does the tool recognise a word?
It treats every continuous group of non-space characters separated by a space as a word. Two words joined by a hyphen (e.g. "blue-white") therefore count as one word.
How are sentences counted?
A sentence is a segment ending with a period, question mark or exclamation mark. With abbreviations that contain a period (e.g. "etc.") or decimal numbers, the result may be slightly overstated — it is an approximate count.
Does counting work with accented characters?
Yes. Accented letters (á, č, ř, ž, é…) count as a single character, just like ordinary letters.
Is my text sent to a server?
No. All computation happens locally in your browser using JavaScript. The text never leaves your device and is not stored anywhere.
How are paragraphs counted?
A blank line is treated as the paragraph separator. Two blocks of text separated by one or more blank lines count as two paragraphs.
Is there a limit on the text length?
Practically no — you are only limited by your browser's performance. Ordinary documents and long texts of tens of thousands of words are handled without trouble.
Can I use the counter to keep within the meta description limit?
Yes. Watch the "characters" tile and keep the meta description to roughly 160 characters so search engines don't truncate it. This is a recommendation, not a hard rule.
📅 Last updated: 11 July 2026