Word and Character Counters by Language

Pick your text's language: each page shows the counts its limits are set in, named in that language.

A word count is one number until the text stops being English. Spanish opens a question with ¿, which adds a character and no word.

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French hangs l' and d' on the next word, and the pair counts as one. A Korean limit may be set in words or in syllable blocks, so that page shows both. Japanese is written without spaces, so its page leads with characters, splits them into kanji, hiragana and katakana, and calls its word count an estimate. Arabic is usually written without its vowel marks and sometimes with them, so one sentence has two lengths. The counting is the same on every page. What changes is which counts are shown, the names on them, the short forms that do not end a sentence (Srta., av. J.-C., د.), and the notes on what each number includes and where it goes wrong. Nothing you paste leaves your browser.

Spanish Word Counter

Ten counts for Spanish text, labelled the way a Spanish brief words them, with del, al and devuélvesela counted as one word each.

For example 27
Korean Word Counter

Eleven counts for Korean text: words as the units between spaces, characters with and without spaces, Hangul characters alone, and the bytes they take.

For example 20
French Word Counter

Ten counts for French text, from mots to signes with and without spaces, with elisions kept whole and the space before ? and : counted where it belongs.

For example 26
Japanese Character Counter

Twelve counts for Japanese text, led by characters and split into kanji, hiragana and katakana, with the word count marked as the estimate it is.

For example 88
Arabic Word Counter

Eleven counts for Arabic text, with the length given with and without vowel marks and وسنعيده counted as the one word it is.

For example 18

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Spanish Word Counter

Korean Word Counter

French Word Counter

Japanese Character Counter

Arabic Word Counter

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