anyword — words & graphemes: Words, characters and sentences counted the way people see them, emoji and spaceless scripts included.

anyword
▸about anyword

Splits text into words, characters or sentences the way people see them — emoji stay whole, Thai and Chinese split without spaces — and counts or truncates on those boundaries.

wraps
Intl.Segmenter
install
npm install anyword
runtime
Node 16+, Chrome 87+, Safari 14.1+, Firefox 125+ — branch on anyword.supported for older engines.
docs
anyfamily.site/docs/anyword
playground
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why

"👨‍👩‍👧".length is 8, split(" ") finds one word in a Thai sentence, slice() cuts an emoji in half. anyword hands you the runtime's real boundaries — for counters, previews and highlights — in ~0.8 kB.

usage

anyword("don't stop 世界")                                  // ["don't", "stop", "世界"]
anyword("👨‍👩‍👧 hi", { by: "grapheme" })                       // ["👨‍👩‍👧", " ", "h", "i"]
anyword.count("héllo", { by: "grapheme" })                  // 5 — what a character counter should show
anyword.truncate("héllo 👨‍👩‍👧", 5, { ellipsis: "…" })         // "héllo…"
anyword.parts("世界 test")                                  // [{ segment: "世界", index: 0, isWordLike: true }, …]
anyword.supported                                           // Intl.Segmenter present?

not for

Stemming, tokenising for search, or language detection.