What counts as a word
We split on whitespace and count each token as a word. Punctuation stays attached to the word.
When word count matters
- SEO title and description planning
- Docs, blog posts, and UI copy
- Project requirements and briefs
Character and byte totals
Character count includes spaces and line breaks. Byte count uses UTF-8, which is important for API and storage limits.
Tips
- Remove extra whitespace for cleaner counts.
- For multilingual text, word count is a quick estimate, not a linguistic parser.