Letter Counter
Count letters only in your text and ignore spaces and symbols. Paste your content to see letter count instantly, useful for writing limits.
Enter your Letters
What this does
Sometimes you do not want every keystroke counted, you just want the letters. That is this tool's whole job. Paste your text and it tallies the letters alone, quietly ignoring the spaces, the numbers, and the punctuation. The total updates as you type, and a copy button is there when you need to grab the text back.
How to use it
- Enter your text in the box.
- The letter total appears straight away, or press Check Length to see it.
- Hit Copy to take the text with you, or Reset to clear everything.
It all runs in your browser, so your text stays with you and nothing is uploaded.
What counts as a letter here
This is the part to read closely, because it decides your number. The tool counts the twenty six letters of the English alphabet, A to Z, in upper or lower case. Anything that is not one of those is left out. So digits like 7 do not count, spaces do not count, and punctuation such as commas and full stops do not count.
There is one more thing worth flagging. Accented letters such as é or ñ, and letters from other alphabets like Cyrillic or Greek, are not counted either, because the tool is looking specifically for plain A to Z. If your text is full of accents or another script, the total will come out lower than you might expect, and now you know why.
When you want only the letters
Counting just the letters comes in handy more often than you would think. Maybe you are working out how many letters are in a name or a word for a puzzle, a crossword, or a word game. Maybe you are setting handwriting practice and want a clean letter total without the spaces muddying it. Or maybe you simply want to know the letter content of a piece of text, stripped of all the gaps and symbols. Whenever the punctuation and spacing would only get in the way, this gives you the pure letter count.
Letters versus characters
It is easy to mix these two up, so here is the difference in plain terms. A character count includes everything you type, spaces and numbers and punctuation and all. A letter count, the one you get here, throws all of that out and keeps only the alphabet letters. Take Hello, world!. That is thirteen characters, but only ten letters, because the comma, the space, and the exclamation mark are not letters. If you need the all in total instead, the character counter is the tool for that.
Questions people ask
Do numbers count as letters?
No. Digits are not letters, so a number like 2026 adds nothing to the letter total. Only the alphabet letters are counted.
Are accented letters like é counted?
No, the tool counts plain A to Z only, so accented letters and letters from other alphabets are skipped. Keep that in mind if your text uses them.
What about spaces and punctuation?
Both are ignored. Spaces, commas, full stops, and every other symbol sit outside the count, leaving you with the letters by themselves.
How is this different from a character counter?
A character counter adds up everything in your text. This keeps only the letters, so its number is usually smaller. Pick whichever one matches what you are measuring.
Sarayu is an Assistant Lecturer at Herald College, currently studying Masters of Engineering at KU. She is a Software engineer and educator who enjoys writing, and publishes essays and articles. She helps to review word/text utilities for clarity and usability.