Letter Counter
Count only the letters in your text, with a figure for everything excluded as digits, spaces or punctuation.
Letter Counter is a browser-based text tool on TextToolsBase. Count only the letters in your text, with a figure for everything excluded as digits, spaces or punctuation. To use it, paste or type your text and view the result directly in your browser — no signup and nothing to install.
A plain character count lumps letters in with digits, spaces and punctuation, but some tasks only care about the alphabetic letters themselves.
Letter Counter counts letters only and shows, beside it, how many characters were left out, so you can see exactly what was and was not counted.
How to use Letter Counter
- Paste or type your text into the editor.
- Read the letters-only total in the headline figure.
- Check the excluded figure to see the digits, spaces and punctuation that were left out.
Use cases
- Counting letters for a word game or puzzle.
- Classroom exercises about letters versus other characters.
- Checking the letter length of a name or single word.
Good to know
A letter here is any Unicode letter, matched with the letter class, so accented and non-Latin letters count too. Digits, spaces and punctuation are deliberately excluded, and the excluded figure is simply the character total minus the letters.
Frequently asked questions
What counts as a letter?
Any alphabetic letter, including accented and non-Latin letters. It uses the Unicode letter class rather than only A to Z.
Are digits and punctuation counted?
No. They are excluded from the letter total and reported separately in the excluded figure.
Do spaces affect the letter count?
No. Spaces are not letters, so they are excluded and counted only in the excluded figure.