Letter Counter – Letters, Digits, Spaces and Marks

Q: What is the supercalifragilisticexpialidocious letter count?

It is 34. The word holds 34 letters and nothing else, so the counter shows 34 letters, 34 characters and 1 word for it. It is the text the box opens on.

Q: Does the letter counter count with spaces or without spaces?

Without. Only letters are counted, and spaces, tabs and line breaks have a number of their own. For a count with spaces, read Characters. For one with no spaces, read Characters without spaces.

Q: How many letters are there in the English alphabet?

There are 26, each with a capital and a small form. Paste abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz and the counter reads 26 letters, 26 characters and 1 word.

Q: What is the average number of letters in a word?

For your own text, divide Letters by Words. The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog has 35 letters in 9 words, about 3.9 letters a word. This page quotes no average for English as a whole.

Q: Does it count Greek, Hebrew and accented letters?

Yes. A letter of any alphabet counts once: é, ñ, ß, Greek Ω, Cyrillic я and Hebrew א are one letter each, and so is each Chinese character.

What the 7 counts mean

Kinds of character 4

Digits The digits 0 to 9, and the decimal digits of other scripts. A fraction such as ½, a raised ² and a Roman numeral character such as Ⅷ are not digits here. Each still counts as a character.
Letters Every character that Unicode classes as a letter, capital or small, in any alphabet. An accented letter is one letter, whether the accent is part of it or was typed as a separate character. Digits, spaces, punctuation marks, symbols and emoji are left out. This is the large number, and the one a limit follows.
Punctuation marks Characters that Unicode classes as punctuation: periods, commas, apostrophes, quotation marks, hyphens, dashes and brackets, and also # % & * @ / and the underscore. Signs it classes as symbols are not punctuation, so $ + = and < add nothing to this number.
Spaces and breaks Spaces, tabs and line breaks, the no-break space included. A line break counts once, even where a file stores it as two characters.

Totals 3

Characters The whole text, spaces and line breaks included: letters, digits, spaces and punctuation marks, plus whatever is none of those, such as a symbol or an emoji, each counted once.
Characters without spaces Letters, digits, punctuation marks, symbols and emoji together, with every space, tab and line break taken out. For a word of letters alone it equals the letter count. A digit, an apostrophe or a hyphen makes it the larger of the two.
Words Each stretch of text between spaces counts as a word when a letter, a digit or another number character such as ½ is in it. Route 66 is two words and e-mail@example.com is one. An emoji or a plus sign standing alone adds none: 2 + 2 = 4 is three words.

How this list was compiled

Own work. The 7 counts are the ones this page shows, with letters first. Every number in a note, and each of the 93 test texts kept with the counts, was produced by the counter this page runs, with the language set to English, and one went in only when the result matched: 83 on 2026-10-01 and 10 more on 2026-10-06, when all of them were run again. Which characters are letters, digits, punctuation marks or symbols follows the General Category each character has in the Unicode Character Database, version 18.0.0 (https://www.unicode.org/Public/18.0.0/ucd/UnicodeData.txt), read 2026-10-01. The spelling of the sample word follows its entry in Wiktionary (https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/supercalifragilisticexpialidocious, CC BY-SA 4.0), read 2026-10-01, and the spelling and meaning of the 35-letter word its entry there (https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/hippopotomonstrosesquipedaliophobia), which lists the spelling with a doubled p as a common misspelling, read 2026-10-06. The 26 letters of the English alphabet: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/English_alphabet (CC BY-SA 4.0), read 2026-10-06. Licence: own work

How it works

This letter counter shows how many letters a text holds as you type, and counts digits, spaces and punctuation marks apart from them. It opens on one long sample word.

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How many letters in a name, a sentence or an essay

Paste a name, a sentence, an essay or the wording of a sign, and Letters is the large number. Only letters count toward it. Anne-Marie O’Brien has 15: the hyphen, the apostrophe and the space add none. How many letters are in this sentence? has 31.

Where letters and characters part

A space, a digit, an apostrophe or an emoji is a character and not a letter. Room 12: Zoë’s café ☕ reads 12 letters, 2 digits, 4 spaces, 2 punctuation marks and 21 characters. The four kinds add up to 20, and the cup is the one left over.

Hippopotomonstrosesquipedaliophobia, the fear of long words, has 35 letters. Spelled with a doubled p, as it often is, it has 36.

Questions and answers

What is the supercalifragilisticexpialidocious letter count?

It is 34. The word holds 34 letters and nothing else, so the counter shows 34 letters, 34 characters and 1 word for it. It is the text the box opens on.

Does the letter counter count with spaces or without spaces?

Without. Only letters are counted, and spaces, tabs and line breaks have a number of their own. For a count with spaces, read Characters. For one with no spaces, read Characters without spaces.

How many letters are there in the English alphabet?