Word CounterCount words, characters, sentences and paragraphs as you type, with reading and speaking time estimates.
Character Counter
Some limits count characters, some count bytes and some count emoji as two. This counter shows all of them side by side and warns you when you pass a limit you set.
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How to use
- Paste or type your text.
- Optionally enter a character limit, such as 160 for an SMS or 155 for a meta description.
- Read the remaining count and the breakdown of letters, digits, spaces and bytes.
Examples
Meta description
Set the limit to 155 to stay inside the length search engines usually display.
Text with emoji
A family emoji 👨👩👧 counts as 1 grapheme but 5 code points and 18 UTF-8 bytes, which explains why some apps reject “short” text.
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Frequently asked questions
What is a grapheme?
A grapheme is what a reader sees as a single character. One emoji or one Arabic letter with diacritics can be made of several code points; graphemes count them as one.
Why show bytes?
Databases, SMS gateways and some APIs limit the size in bytes. Arabic letters take 2 bytes each in UTF-8 and most emoji take 4.
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