Unicode-aware token rules include letters and numbers while handling common apostrophes and hyphens.
Content & publishing
Free word and character counter
Paste text to count words, characters, sentences, paragraphs, lines, and UTF-8 bytes. Separate character measurements help when a form or system counts text differently. Your text stays in your browser.
- Runs locally
- Unicode-aware counts
- One MiB limit
- No signup required
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Counts update as you type. Paste plain text rather than HTML source.
256 UTF-8 bytes1,048,576 maximum
Your text is counted in this browser. Plainview Tools does not upload, store, or send it.
Live text statistics
See the counts clearly.
- Word count
- 43
- Characters with spaces
- 253
- Characters without spaces
- 209
- Sentences
- 4
- Paragraphs
- 2
- Lines
- 3
- Unicode code points
- 253
- UTF-8 bytes
- 256
What “character” means here
Readable characters come first.
The main character count uses grapheme clusters, so a combined emoji or an accented letter is generally counted as one visible character. The code-point and byte totals remain separate because technical limits may measure the same text differently.
Check the limit you are writing for.
A form may limit bytes or code points rather than visible characters. Check its requirement before choosing which total to use.
Counting method
How each count is measured.
Words, visual characters, Unicode code points, and encoded bytes answer different questions. Plainview Tools keeps the rules stable and reports those differences directly.
Grapheme segmentation counts user-perceived characters so a combined emoji is not split into several visible characters.
Sentence, paragraph, and line counts use documented separators and fallbacks.
Browser differences
Modern browsers can use Intl.Segmenter. A documented fallback keeps the tool functional when that feature is unavailable, but language-specific boundaries may differ.
Method references
References for text counting.
The references describe Unicode text segmentation and the browser API used for user-perceived character counting. The tool's additional practical rules and one MiB input limit are documented above.