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Character & Word Counter Online

Free tool for counting characters, words, sentences and reading time

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Characters

Count characters with and without spaces

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Words

Accurate word count in text

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Sentences

Count sentences and paragraphs

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Reading Time

Estimate text reading time

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Frequently Asked Questions

Character counting is essential for meeting limits on social media, SMS, meta tags, and ads. For example, Twitter/X allows 280 characters, and a meta description should be 155-160 characters.
Characters are individual letters, digits, spaces, and punctuation marks. Words are groups of characters separated by spaces. A single word can contain anywhere from one to dozens of characters.
Twitter/X allows 280 characters per post, Instagram allows 2200 for captions, Telegram allows 4096 per message, and YouTube allows 100 characters for video titles.
Search engines truncate titles and descriptions that are too long in search results. The optimal title length is 50-60 characters, and description length is 150-160 characters.