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Letter Counter

Paste or type text to count its letters, characters, words, sentences and lines. The counts update with every keystroke.

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58 characters
Counts12 words
Characters58
Characters without spaces47
Letters45
Digits0
Words12
Sentences2
Paragraphs1
Lines1
Bytes (UTF-8)58

Letter frequency

  1. o4 · 8.9%
  2. t4 · 8.9%
  3. e3 · 6.7%
  4. r3 · 6.7%
  5. s3 · 6.7%
  6. u3 · 6.7%
  7. a2 · 4.4%
  8. f2 · 4.4%
  9. h2 · 4.4%
  10. i2 · 4.4%
  11. n2 · 4.4%
  12. b1 · 2.2%
  13. c1 · 2.2%
  14. d1 · 2.2%
  15. g1 · 2.2%
  16. j1 · 2.2%
  17. k1 · 2.2%
  18. l1 · 2.2%
  19. m1 · 2.2%
  20. p1 · 2.2%
  21. q1 · 2.2%
  22. v1 · 2.2%
  23. w1 · 2.2%
  24. x1 · 2.2%
  25. y1 · 2.2%
  26. z1 · 2.2%

How the letter counter counts characters and words

CountRule
CharactersEvery Unicode code point: letters, digits, punctuation, spaces and line breaks.
Characters without spacesCharacters minus spaces, tabs and line breaks.
LettersCharacters that are letters in any alphabet. Digits and punctuation are not letters.
DigitsThe characters 0 to 9, and the digits of other scripts.
WordsRuns of characters separated by white space.
SentencesPieces of text that end in . ! or ? followed by a space, or that end a paragraph.
ParagraphsBlocks of text separated by at least one blank line.
LinesLine breaks plus one. Blank lines count.
Bytes (UTF-8)The size of the text when saved as UTF-8: 1 byte for a basic Latin character, 2 to 4 for others.

The letter frequency list ignores case, so T and t are counted together, and shows each letter's share of all letters.

Letter count example: a 40-character sentence

For the text The quick brown fox jumps. It runs fast! the counter reports:

  • 40 characters, of which 7 are spaces, so 33 without spaces.
  • 31 letters: the 33 non-space characters minus the full stop and the exclamation mark.
  • 8 words and 2 sentences, one ending in a full stop and one in an exclamation mark.
  • The most frequent letters are s (3), t (3), u (3).
Column chart of letter frequency in the letter counter's sample, "The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog. It runs fast!": all 26 letters appear, O and T 4 times each, E, R, S and U 3 times, 45 letters in all.
A pangram uses every letter of the alphabet at least once, so no column is empty.

Character limits: spaces, words and bytes

Forms, ad platforms and social networks set their limits in characters, and most include spaces. Schools and publishers usually set limits in words.

If a limit matters, check which one is meant and how the other side counts: some systems count bytes, and some count certain characters twice. The byte count above is the one to use for database fields and SMS-style limits that are defined in bytes.

Styled letters from the Unicode text converter are one reason byte counts can surprise: each bold or italic letter is 4 bytes, against 1 for a plain letter. To estimate how long a text takes to read aloud, use the words to minutes calculator with the word count from this page.

To fix the capitals before you count, run the text through Convert Case. To count list items instead of words, the alphabetical order generator reports how many lines a list has and how many duplicates it removed.

Letter Counter: FAQ

Do spaces count as characters?
Yes. Characters counts everything, including spaces, tabs and line breaks. Characters without spaces leaves out all white space. Use whichever your form or editor asks for.
What is the difference between letters and characters?
A letter is a character from an alphabet: a, Z, é, ß, я. Digits, punctuation, spaces and symbols are characters but not letters. In Room 101! there are 9 characters and 4 letters.
Can it count how many times each letter appears?
Yes. The letter frequency list shows every letter in the text with its count and its share of all letters, most frequent first. Capital and small letters are counted together, so T and t are one entry; an accented letter such as é has an entry of its own.
How does it count words?
A word is any run of characters between white space. well-known, don't and 3.14 each count as one word. Several spaces or blank lines in a row do not add words.
Why is my sentence count higher than I expected?
The counter ends a sentence at every ., ! or ? that is followed by a space or the end of a paragraph. It cannot tell an abbreviation from the end of a sentence, so Dr. Smith arrived. counts as two.
Does an emoji count as one character?
A simple emoji such as 😀 counts as one. Characters are counted as Unicode code points, so an emoji that is built from several code points, such as a flag or a family, counts as several. Websites with a character limit each have their own way of counting these.
Is my text saved anywhere?
No. The text stays in the page and is gone when you close or reload it. It is not stored in your browser and not sent to a server.

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