Kit — word count

Word and character count

Paste text and get characters, words, lines, bytes and reading time at once — with emoji and CJK counted the way a reader would count them, not the way UTF-16 does.

Characters
0
Without spaces
0
Words
0
Lines
0
Paragraphs
0
UTF-8 bytes
0
Manuscript pages
0.0 pp.
Reading time
—
Common length limits
X (a post)280280 left
Meta description155155 left
Page title6060 left
Manuscript page (400 ji)400400 left

This runs entirely in your browser. Nothing is uploaded.

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What this one gets right

Emoji count as one character

Most counters report a flag emoji as 4 and an astral CJK character as 2, because they count UTF-16 code units. This counts graphemes — the units a person sees.

Word counts that work in Japanese

Splitting on whitespace calls a 400-character Japanese paragraph "one word". Segmenting on real word boundaries gives a meaningful number in either language.

Your draft stays yours

Unpublished writing, internal documents, anything with personal details — none of it is uploaded, so none of it needs a second thought.

Reading the numbers

With or without spaces?Post limits (X and friends) count spaces; manuscript length is usually quoted without them. If a submission spells out which one it means, follow that.
Why are manuscript pages fractional?It is the raw 400-characters-per-page figure. Rounding 2.3 up to 3 hides how much is actually missing.
What is the byte count for?Database column limits and filename limits are usually measured in bytes, not characters. Japanese characters are typically 3 bytes each in UTF-8.
Where does reading time come from?240 words per minute for English, 500 characters per minute for Japanese — mid-range figures for silent reading. Reading aloud or closely is slower.

Questions

Is there a length limit?

None by design. Several hundred thousand characters work fine, though typing may feel less immediate on a modest device.

Is my text stored?

No. It lives in the page and disappears when you close the tab. Nothing is sent anywhere.

Why does Word give a different number?

Word counts English-style words by default and keeps a separate character count for CJK, and implementations differ on newlines and spaces. Check which figure you are comparing.

Does it work on a phone?

Yes — the input grows with the screen.