Text and character counter

The num­ber of cha­rac­ters refers to all the cha­rac­ters that appear in a text. This also includes spaces, peri­ods and com­mas. It is always important when a text must not exceed a cer­tain length. For exam­p­le, texts from social media such as Twit­ter, Face­book and Insta­gram are rest­ric­ted. The num­ber of cha­rac­ters is also used to find out which length achie­ves the best results.

The num­ber of cha­rac­ters also plays a role in trans­la­ti­ons. For exam­p­le, trans­la­ti­on agen­ci­es or DeepL appli­ca­ti­ons char­ge depen­ding on the num­ber of cha­rac­ters. Some trans­la­tors also use the length wit­hout spaces.

The word count counts all the words in the text, while the cha­rac­ter count counts all the cha­rac­ters in the text. Spe­cial cha­rac­ters are also coun­ted for cha­rac­ters. Howe­ver, this is not the case with words.

To deter­mi­ne the cha­rac­ter length, you can use appli­ca­ti­ons such as Word or Open­Of­fice. Alter­na­tively, you can also deter­mi­ne the cha­rac­ter length using our cha­rac­ter coun­ter. Sim­ply copy your text into the text field abo­ve and our cha­rac­ter coun­ter will deter­mi­ne the num­ber of cha­rac­ters, the num­ber of words, para­graphs and sen­tence length. We have also included important key figu­res on social media in our cha­rac­ter coun­ter. This allows you to check at any time whe­ther you are excee­ding the maxi­mum length for a tweet, a Face­book post or your per­mit­ted hash­tags.