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How this Spanish word count works
The counter counts space-separated chunks that contain a letter or number. Tabs, line breaks and repeated spaces separate words too. ¿Dónde está la estación de tren? counts as six words. The opening and closing question marks do not add words.
Written forms stay together: al, del and dímelo each count as one word. A hyphenated expression such as teórico-práctico also counts as one under this tool’s convention. Accents and ñ are ordinary letters, so mañana counts as one.
Standalone punctuation and emoji are excluded from the word count; numbers count. The tool does not split on punctuation, so put a space between separate words. Character count includes spaces, punctuation and line breaks. It counts Unicode code points, so a combined emoji or an accent stored separately from its letter can count as more than one character.
Check a few Spanish examples
| Spanish text | Words | What to notice |
|---|---|---|
| Voy al mercado. | 3 | Al is one written word. |
| Vengo del trabajo. | 3 | Del stays together too. |
| Dímelo mañana, por favor. | 4 | The pronouns attached to dímelo stay in that word. |
| ¡Qué bien! 😊 | 2 | Punctuation and the separate emoji add no words. |
| Tengo 2 entradas. | 3 | A number counts as a word here. |
For a short writing exercise, describe yesterday in 80 to 100 words: where you went, who you saw and what you did. Check the length, then revise any sentence whose meaning is unclear. A word target helps you size a draft; it does not measure your Spanish level.
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