Word and character counter
Count words, visible characters, Unicode code points and UTF-8 bytes while editing text. Compare editorial length with storage size; emoji and accented letters illustrate why these measures differ.
Free to use. No email or account required.
Your inputs
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Your result
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How it works
- Words count word-like segments only. Character count groups combining marks and joined emoji; code points count Unicode scalar characters. UTF-8 bytes encode the original text without normalization.
- Worked example
- Hello → 1 / 5 / 5 / 5
Assumptions and limitations
Uses browser Intl.Segmenter in the page language. Word boundaries vary by language and browser Unicode version; hyphenated words and CJK text may differ from office software. Visible characters are grapheme clusters, including whitespace. Limit: 200,000 UTF-16 code units. No text is uploaded.
Sources
- MDN — Intl.Segmenter Sources reviewed: 2026-10-28
- Unicode — text segmentation Sources reviewed: 2026-10-28
Processing and privacy
The calculation or transformation runs in your browser. The tool does not send its input values or generated output to an application server. Loading a page still makes infrastructure requests; optional analytics and Google consent messages have separate controls.
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Sources and maintenance
Maintained by emonster. Sources are listed with their own review dates; these are not live-data timestamps or claims of independent expert certification.
