Quickly and accurately counts characters, words, spaces, and lines. Paste or type your content into the text input field below.
About the Character Counter Tool
The online character counter tool is a useful utility that provides various real-time statistics for the text entered by the user. With this tool, you can instantly check the number of characters (including/excluding spaces), words, spaces, and lines. It’s free to use anytime, anywhere, with just a web browser, no complex programs required.
Students can find it useful for meeting character limits in reports, theses, or assignments. Bloggers, writers, and marketers who produce content can use it to measure manuscript length or comply with social media character limits. Furthermore, it’s an essential tool for checking specified word counts when writing resumes or cover letters.
How to Use
- Locate the text input field at the top of the page.
- Directly type or copy and paste the text you wish to analyze into the input field.
- As soon as you enter text, the character count, word count, space count, and line count will automatically update and display in the results area below.
- Review the results and modify your text as needed.
This tool automatically calculates character counts every time you type or modify text, making it very convenient as there’s no need to press a separate ‘Count’ button.
Why is Character Counting Important?
In modern society, various forms of writing are required, and often, there are restrictions on text length. For instance, university reports frequently demand minimum/maximum character or word counts. Twitter and text messages have clear character limits. From an SEO perspective, content above a certain length is also often recommended.
Knowing the exact character count helps in meeting given requirements, adjusting the density of the text, and estimating a comfortable reading length for the audience. It can also be used to estimate page counts or calculate costs for contracts or publications. Our tool provides accurate statistical information to meet these diverse needs.
Explanation of Measurement Criteria
- Total Characters (including spaces): The total number of characters in the entered text. This includes Korean, English, numbers, special characters, and spaces (spacing), tabs.
- Characters (excluding spaces): The number of pure characters in the entered text, excluding spaces (spacing, tabs).
- Word Count: Counts the number of words by primarily separating text based on spaces. Korean separates words by spacing, and other languages like English follow a similar method. Spaces at the beginning or end of a sentence do not affect the word count.
- Space Count: The number of space (‘ ‘) characters included in the entered text. (Note: Tab characters are not included.)
- Line Count: Indicates how many lines the text consists of. The line count increases each time the Enter key is pressed for a line break, and if at least one line of text is entered, it displays a minimum of 1.
Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)
Yes, our character counter tool is completely free. You can use it freely without any restrictions.
No. All calculations are performed solely within your web browser. The text you enter is neither sent to our servers nor stored, so you can use it with peace of mind regarding your personal information and content security.
This tool counts all characters, so it can accurately count characters and characters including spaces for various languages, not just Korean, but also English, Japanese, Chinese, etc. Word count may vary depending on the spacing rules of each language.