Word wrap tool

Wrap text at a chosen visible-character width. Keep existing paragraph breaks and choose how to handle words that exceed the width.

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Line width in visible characters

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Words wider than the line

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Updated 2026-09-19

Using Word wrap tool

Choose a line width and the tool inserts real line breaks for plain-text documents, messages or fixed-width text. Existing line breaks and empty paragraphs remain. Runs of spaces and tabs inside a line become single spaces.

Visible characters are Unicode grapheme clusters, so joined emoji and combining accents stay together. Optional long-word handling either splits at a character boundary or leaves the word wider than your limit.

Next: Remove line breaks

A worked example

At a width of 8, “one two three” becomes “one two” followed by “three” on the next line.

Next: Character counter

Before you use the result

The width counts visible characters, not pixels or terminal cells. Proportional fonts and wide CJK characters need different display space. Indentation and repeated spaces are normalized; use this for prose, not aligned code.

Next: Word counter

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