Letter Counter — Count Letters in Text Online, Free

How to use the Letter Counter

Type or paste your text into the box. The letter count updates on its own with every keystroke — there is no button to press. When you want the text somewhere else, click “COPY TEXT” to copy it to your clipboard.

One detail worth knowing: the copy button copies your text, not the number. If you need the count itself, read it off the counter above the box and type it where you need it.

Worked example: counting letters in “Hello, World! 2026”

Paste Hello, World! 2026 into the counter and it shows 10 letters. Here is why:

• “Hello” gives 5 letters: H, e, l, l, o.
• “World” gives 5 letters: W, o, r, l, d.
• The comma, the space, the exclamation mark and the digits 2026 are not letters, so they add nothing.

Try a second one: “Good morning!” counts as 11 letters — 4 from “Good” and 7 from “morning”. The exclamation mark is ignored, just like the comma was. If your count looks too low, check whether your text is full of digits or punctuation, because those never count here.

Where a letter count is actually useful

Most online limits are character limits, which count everything. A letter count answers a narrower question, and it matters in a few real places. Teachers set letter-count exercises for young learners (“find five words with exactly six letters”). Word-game players check a word’s length before entering it — “serendipity” is 11 letters, which decides whether it fits a crossword slot. Writers shaping a short headline or a username sometimes need the letter count alone, because spaces are free in their layout but letters are not.

It is also a quick sanity check. If you typed a list of names and the count looks far off, you may have pasted the wrong block of text. Counting by eye across a long paragraph is exactly the kind of job where a slip is easy and a tool is faster.

Honest limitations

This counter counts the letters A to Z only. That is the whole rule, and it has edges you should know. Accented letters such as é, ü or ñ are not counted, because they fall outside A to Z — a French or Spanish sentence will come out lower than you expect. Digits and punctuation never count, so the letter count will always be lower than the character count of the same text. The tool counts the entire box at once: you cannot select part of your text and count only that part. And it does not split the count by word or by upper and lower case, so if you need “how many capital letters”, this is not the tool for it. For a full breakdown of characters, words and sentences, use a word counter alongside it.

Letter Counter — frequently asked questions

What is the difference between a letter count and a character count?

A character count includes everything: letters, spaces, digits and punctuation. A letter count includes only A to Z. “Hello, World!” is 13 characters but 10 letters.

Does the Letter Counter count spaces?

No. Spaces, line breaks, digits and punctuation are all ignored. Only the 26 letters of the English alphabet are counted.

Does it count accented letters like é or ü?

No. The counter only recognises plain A to Z letters, so accented characters are skipped. If your text is in a language with many accents, treat the result as a count of unaccented letters only.

Can I count the letters in only part of my text?

Not directly. The counter reads the whole box, so paste just the passage you want to measure into the box on its own.