Word / Character Counter
Count characters, words, sentences, paragraphs, and bytes in real-time.
About Word / Character Counter
This tool measures text length using multiple metrics.
• Characters (with spaces): Total character count including spaces and line breaks
• Characters (no spaces): Pure character count excluding whitespace
• Words: Whitespace-separated token count
• Sentences: Based on period (.), exclamation (!), and question mark (?) delimiters
• Bytes: Data size in UTF-8 encoding
Common Use Cases
FAQ
Why do different characters have different byte sizes?
In UTF-8 encoding, ASCII characters (English letters, digits) use 1 byte, while CJK characters (Chinese, Japanese, Korean) use 3 bytes. For example, "a" is 1 byte and "가" is 3 bytes. This is because UTF-8 uses variable-length encoding based on Unicode code points.
How are words counted?
Words are counted by splitting text on whitespace (spaces, tabs, line breaks). Each contiguous sequence of non-whitespace characters is considered one word.
What is the character limit for social media?
Twitter/X allows 280 characters. Instagram captions support up to 2,200 characters. LinkedIn posts allow up to 3,000 characters. Facebook posts can be up to 63,206 characters.
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