Character & Word Counter

This tool counts characters, words, lines, sentences, and paragraphs in real time as you type or paste text, and also shows the size in bytes under UTF-8 encoding.

What gets counted

• Characters with and without spaces — shown separately so you can check against limits like meta descriptions or tweets.
• Words — split on spaces and the punctuation between them.
• Sentences and paragraphs — split on terminal punctuation (. ! ?) and blank lines, respectively.
• UTF-8 byte size — useful when a limit is measured in bytes rather than characters (non-Latin text and emoji take more than one byte each).

Common uses

• Checking a meta description or title's length before publishing so it fits the search result limit.
• Keeping text within a character limit for an assignment, bio, or product description.
• Getting quick text stats without opening a text editor with a word-count panel.

Things to keep in mind

One visual "character" (like an emoji with a skin-tone modifier or a country flag) can be made of several Unicode code points and count differently depending on the counting method.

Social media and form limits sometimes count bytes or grapheme clusters rather than characters — check against this tool's byte counter if that matters.