Letter Counter

What is Online Letter Counter?

Letter Counter is a free online tool for counting letters, words, and sentences in a text even while you are typing. If you are writing a text which has letter or word limits, you can check your text easily with Letter Counter for your lower and upper limits.

In web and social media, there are lots of character and word limits to optimize the content. All social media sites like Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, YouTube, Snapchat, Pinterest etc. use title, post, comment, username limits to prevent spam and optimize their data in their databases. So, you must obey these limits before creating any type of text/content in these sites. Using letter counter and word counter for this purpose is a good practice for preventing time loss.

For example, you have a website, and you will post new content on your site. You must set your meta title and description for SEO purposes to determine how it looks on Google, Bing, Yandex, Yahoo or other search engines. Ideal title for your page is 55 characters. If you use titles longer than this, it may be cut in some point. Same thing is valid for page description. You must limit it with 160 characters. Using a letter calculator will save your time and effort before posting this content. Here is an example of how a search result looks like in Google and how it limits letter count.

Letter Count Limits on Google Search Result

How to use Online Letter Counter?

You can create count letters, words, and sentences in your text by following these steps.

1. Enter your text in text area.
2. It will automatically calculate letter, word and sentence count in your text.
3. Also, you can check if your text pass or fails for limits on social media and web standards.

Frequently asked questions

Do spaces count as letters?

Yes — spaces between words are counted, since that is how platforms count them too. Whitespace at the very start and end of the text is trimmed first.

Which limits are built in?

Sixteen of them, across meta tags, Google, Instagram, Twitter, Facebook, YouTube, Snapchat and Pinterest — post lengths, usernames, captions and titles. Pick a category to filter the table down to the ones you care about.

What are the right lengths for a meta title and description?

Around 55 characters for a title and 160 for a description. Past that, search engines cut the text off, and the part that gets cut is usually the part you most wanted read.

Does the count update while I type?

Yes, immediately. There is no button to press and nothing to submit.

How are sentences counted?

By looking for a full stop, question mark or exclamation mark followed by a space or the end of the text. Abbreviations with full stops in them can therefore read as extra sentences.

Is my text uploaded anywhere?

No. Counting happens in the page itself. If the text needs tidying first, the Multiple Whitespace Remover and the Case Converter work the same way, and the Text to Handwriting Converter will tell you how many pages that text becomes once it is handwritten.