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✍️ Word & Character Counter
Live word, character and sentence counts
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About the Word & Character Counter
Paste any text to see live counts of words, characters (with and without spaces), sentences and paragraphs. Useful for essays, social posts, SEO meta descriptions and writing assignments with a strict limit.
Everything runs in your browser. No inputs are uploaded, logged or stored on our servers.
How it works
- Paste or type text into the box.
- Watch the counts update live as you edit.
What you'll learn
- How counts differ for characters with and without spaces.
- Typical length limits for tweets, meta descriptions and SMS.
FAQs
- Does it count emoji as one character?
- Emoji can count as more than one character depending on how they are encoded. Most simple emoji count as one.
- What is the SEO meta description limit?
- Around 155 to 160 characters before Google truncates it in search results.