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Frequently Asked Questions
Yes. The tool runs entirely in your browser. Nothing you type or paste is sent to any server.
This tool treats hyphenated words like "state-of-the-art" as one word. This aligns with most academic and publishing standards.
Certain complex emojis, especially flag emojis, are counted as multiple characters — sometimes 6 or more — even though they look like a single symbol. They're not a single Unicode code point, but rather a sequence of multiple characters combined using special Unicode rules called "grapheme clusters." We don't encourage you to use emojis on, uh... Academic papers, and therefor don't implement complex logic to count them.
