Canadian word and character counter
Check an English or French Canadian draft with explicit counting conventions and included sections. Switch to the complete French version, compare words, visible characters and UTF-8 bytes, and save a counts-only report. Your draft is not saved or uploaded.
How it works
Choose words, visible characters or bytes and explain English and French punctuation in a Canadian bilingual draft.
Default words are whitespace-separated chunks containing a letter or number. Internal apostrophes, hyphens and decimals stay together. The browser alternative can differ. Space switches affect visible-character counts, not original bytes or words. A Canadian school, employer or application form may define its own count and included sections. Do not assume a country-wide rule. Compare “colour/centre” with “couleur/centre”, curly apostrophes and decimal punctuation, and ask the receiving institution which titles or references belong in scope. The English and French versions use the same measurement rules.
Choose included sections, switch to the complete French version and copy a count report before final submission.
Section counts are added without inventing spaces or separators. Edit the draft using the numeric limit check, then confirm the receiving form’s own count and rules. Copy or download the measurement basis without the draft.
Common questions
Do English and French apostrophes change the count?
Default words are whitespace-separated chunks containing a letter or number. Internal apostrophes, hyphens and decimals stay together. The browser alternative can differ. Space switches affect visible-character counts, not original bytes or words. A count within the limit does not guarantee upload or submission acceptance. X weighting and URL parsing are approximate; Instagram and YouTube title graphemes can differ from platform units. YouTube also excludes < and >. The receiving form is authoritative. Blocks are arithmetic equivalents, not printed manuscript pages.
Which sections does my Canadian institution include?
A Canadian school, employer or application form may define its own count and included sections. Do not assume a country-wide rule. Compare “colour/centre” with “couleur/centre”, curly apostrophes and decimal punctuation, and ask the receiving institution which titles or references belong in scope. The English and French versions use the same measurement rules. Edit the draft using the numeric limit check, then confirm the receiving form’s own count and rules. Copy or download the measurement basis without the draft.
Is my draft saved or uploaded anywhere?
Processed in this tab only. No draft history or upload. TXT only, at most 1 MiB and 200,000 UTF-16 units. Rich documents are not decoded. A leading UTF-8 BOM is omitted; the editor may normalize line endings.
Practical guides
- Canadian English and French counting conventions
Explain Canadian English and French examples with colour/centre, apostrophes and decimal conventions, without guessing institutional policy.
- A bilingual Canadian submission: sections and counts
Work a Canadian bilingual submission with deliberately included title, body and references and a complete paired French guide.
Scope and limitations
A count within the limit does not guarantee upload or submission acceptance. X weighting and URL parsing are approximate; Instagram and YouTube title graphemes can differ from platform units. YouTube also excludes < and >. The receiving form is authoritative. Blocks are arithmetic equivalents, not printed manuscript pages.