Who runs this site
WordCount.tools (wordcount.tools) is operated by Anderson Gomes Ferreira. contato@wordcount.tools
How it works
Words are runs of letters or digits; an apostrophe, hyphen or dot between two letters keeps them in one word (don’t, e-mail, 3.5). Each Chinese, Japanese or Korean character counts as one word, because those scripts do not put spaces between words.
Characters are counted the way you see them: an emoji built from several code points counts once. Where a platform counts differently, its meter says how: X weighs characters by its own published rules, SMS counts GSM-7 septets or UTF-16 units, and YouTube counts the description in UTF-8 bytes.
Readability scores use the published Flesch, Flesch–Kincaid, Coleman–Liau and SMOG formulas. Syllables are estimated by a spelling rule, so scores can differ slightly from other tools.
Every platform limit on the site links to the platform’s own page. Where no platform publishes a limit (search titles and descriptions), you set the target yourself.
The counters run in your browser. The text you type is not sent to our servers and is not stored.
Where the data and rules come from
- X Developer Platform: Counting characters — 280-character post limit, weighting, URLs counted as 23
- LinkedIn Help: Post and share updates — Posts up to 3,000 characters
- Meta: Instagram Platform, IG User Media reference — Caption up to 2,200 characters, 30 hashtags and 20 @ tags
- YouTube Data API: Videos resource — Title up to 100 characters, description up to 5,000 bytes
- 3GPP TS 23.038 and TS 23.040 — GSM-7 alphabet and SMS message size
- Google Search Central: Title links and snippets — No fixed title or description length
- Brysbaert (2019), Journal of Memory and Language — Average reading rates
How we keep the content up to date
Each platform limit shows the page it comes from and the day we opened it. Limits are checked again when a platform changes its documentation.
What this site is not
Platforms change their limits and some count emoji or links in ways they do not document. The meters are a check before you post; the platform’s own editor has the last word. Readability scores are estimates for English text.
Get in touch
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