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Free Word & Character Counter

Count words, characters, characters without spaces, lines and UTF-8 bytes instantly and privately in your browser.

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About this tool

Free Word & Character Counter

A word and character counter is useful for articles, descriptions, forms, social copy, metadata and technical payload limits. This tool reports Unicode-aware character counts, a whitespace-based word count, line count and the actual UTF-8 byte size of the text.

How to use it

How to use it

  1. Paste or type the value you want to process.
  2. Choose the operation or algorithm when the tool offers options.
  3. Generate the result locally in your browser, then copy it without uploading the input to Ciatto Tools.
How to read the result

How to read the result

Character count and byte size are not always the same because many Unicode characters require multiple UTF-8 bytes. Use the byte result when an API or storage limit is specified in bytes rather than characters.

Limitations

Limitations

Word boundaries vary across languages and writing systems. The current word count uses whitespace boundaries, so linguistic tokenization for languages without spaces may require specialized analysis.

FAQ

Frequently asked questions

Are spaces included in the character count?

The result includes both total characters and a separate count with whitespace removed.

Why are UTF-8 bytes higher than characters?

Many Unicode characters use more than one byte when encoded as UTF-8.