What counts as a word?
Words are runs of letters or numbers. Apostrophes and hyphens inside a word stay together: don’t and well-made each count as one. An emoji by itself is not a word.
A worked example
Eight arms, one careful tool. has 5 words. A blank line starts a new paragraph; wrapping a long line on screen does not add a line. To change the capitalization before using the text, open the case converter.
Before you use the result
Sentence counts follow punctuation and include a final unfinished fragment. Abbreviations and unusual punctuation can change that count. A word processor may use a different rule. If the limit counts bytes or visible characters instead, compare the character counts.