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Typical limits as published by each platform. They change, so check the platform before you rely on them.
Paste or type your text into the box and the counts update as you go; your text is never sent anywhere. Use "Limits" to see how many characters you have left for a post, SMS or meta description. Tick "exclude bracketed citations" if you want to ignore references like [1]. The word count is the number of runs of characters separated by spaces or line breaks, which is how most word processors count, so small differences can appear with hyphens, dashes and symbols.
Any run of non-space characters is one word, so "well-known" is one word and a lone "-" counts as one; Word and Google Docs differ slightly on dashes and symbols.
No. Counting runs in this page; we do not send or store what you type.
Word treats some symbols, em dashes and footnotes differently. Use the Word count if a school or publisher says to.
Words divided by 238 for silent reading and by 130 for speaking aloud. These are averages; your pace will differ.
Emoji count as one character each (we count by Unicode characters, not code units). Languages written without spaces (Chinese, Japanese) are counted by character, not word, so use the character count.
The published limits of each platform; they change, so check the platform before you rely on them.
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