Word and character counter
Count words, Unicode characters, graphemes, lines and UTF-8 bytes.
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How to use this tool
- Paste text to inspect.
- Word and character counts update as you type. Expand More counts for bytes and Unicode details.
- Use the byte count when a storage or API limit is measured in UTF-8.
Things to know
- Word segmentation uses the browser English segmenter. Graphemes can contain several Unicode code points.
- Each text input accepts up to 5 MiB. Output is limited to 25 MiB and combined text settings to 1 MiB.
- Line-based modes accept up to 100,000 lines, including a trailing empty line.
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