Paste or type your text above and the counter shows the number of characters with spaces and without spaces, live, next to words, sentences and lines.
Characters with spaces and without spaces
Two numbers answer two different questions. Characters (all) counts every visible character, including spaces, tabs and line breaks. This is the figure most forms, text fields and publishing platforms check. Characters (no spaces) leaves out all whitespace. Translators, typesetters and some university assignments use it because it does not change when you add a double space after a full stop or reflow a paragraph.
| Text | Characters (all) | No spaces | Words |
|---|---|---|---|
Hello world | 11 | 10 | 2 |
café au lait | 12 | 10 | 3 |
👍🏽 done | 6 | 5 | 1 |
well-known fact | 15 | 14 | 2 |
Why emoji and accents count as one character
Computers store many characters as several pieces. A thumbs-up emoji with a skin tone is two Unicode code points, and a family emoji can be seven. WordPico counts grapheme clusters: what a reader sees as one character counts as one. That matches how people read, but a platform that limits text in code units or bytes may count the same emoji as two, four or more. If a site rejects text that looks short enough, open the character limit checker, which can measure in the unit a platform documents.
When a character count matters
- Form fields and databases: profile fields, product titles and support forms often stop accepting input at a fixed length.
- Search snippets: Google does not set a character limit for titles or meta descriptions; it shortens them to fit the screen. A count still helps you keep the important words near the start.
- Translation and typesetting: quotes are often priced per 1,000 characters without spaces, especially for Chinese, Japanese and Korean, where word counts are less meaningful.
- Assignments: abstracts and application answers are sometimes limited in characters rather than words.
Counting part of a text
The totals always cover the whole editor. To check one paragraph, paste it into a fresh editor or use Undo after you have checked it: the counter keeps a full undo history while you work. The 200,000-character editor limit is measured the way browsers measure text fields, in UTF-16 code units, so a document full of emoji reaches it a little sooner than plain text does.
Privacy
Counting happens in your browser. The text is not uploaded, and autosave keeps the draft only in this browser's local storage, which you can switch off below the editor.