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Arabic Word and Character Counter
Count words, characters and sentences in Arabic text, with tashkeel and tatweel kept out of the letter count.
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How to use
- Paste your Arabic or mixed text, or upload a .txt file.
- Read the counts: words, characters, sentences, paragraphs and unique words.
- Check the split between Arabic and Latin words.
- Use the most frequent words table to spot repeated terms.
What it checks and how it works
Words and sentences come from Intl.Segmenter with the Arabic locale, which follows the Unicode text segmentation rules (UAX #29), so punctuation and spaces are not counted as words. Characters are reported three ways: code points, visible characters (grapheme clusters, where a letter and its tashkeel count as one) and Arabic letters only. Tashkeel marks and tatweel are counted on their own.
A word counter written for English often counts Arabic text wrongly, because it splits on spaces only and counts every mark as a character. The counts here depend on your browser's Unicode data, so the same text can differ by a word between browsers in rare cases.
Sources
- Unicode Standard Annex #29: Unicode Text Segmentation opened 29 Oct 2026
- MDN Web Docs: Intl.Segmenter opened 29 Oct 2026
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Questions
About this tool
Counters differ on whether tashkeel, tatweel and spaces count. This tool shows code points, visible characters and Arabic letters separately so you can pick the one your limit uses.
Each word is classed by its script, so you see Arabic words and Latin words separately, and numbers are counted apart.
No. The counting runs in your browser and nothing leaves it.
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