How does it decide what counts as a word?

A word is a run of Hungarian letters and digits with internal hyphens and apostrophes kept inside. The counter splits on whitespace and punctuation, so a long compound like megszentségteleníthetetlenségeskedéseitekért counts as one word.

Are long Hungarian compounds one word or several?

One. Hungarian is agglutinative, so a single orthographic word can carry many suffixes, like házaitokban or megszentségteleníthetetlenségeskedéseitekért. Because there are no spaces inside, the counter treats each as exactly one word.

Does it recognise the full Hungarian alphabet?

Yes. All accented letters (á, é, í, ó, ö, ő, ú, ü, ű) are Unicode letters, so they are counted as word characters and never treated as separators.

How are hyphenated forms handled?

A hyphen with no surrounding spaces, as in dél-afrikai or e-mail, keeps the form as one word. A spaced dash used as punctuation separates the words on either side.

How are sentences counted?

Sentences are counted by runs of terminal punctuation (. ! ? and the ellipsis …). Consecutive terminators collapse to one boundary, so an ellipsis or ?! does not inflate the count.

Hungarian Word Counter

Counting words in Hungarian needs awareness of its agglutinative grammar. A single Hungarian word can stack many suffixes onto a stem, producing long forms like házaitokban or the famous megszentségteleníthetetlenségeskedéseitekért. Because these contain no spaces, they are exactly one orthographic word. This counter applies the right boundary rules so compounds stay whole and you get accurate word, character, and sentence totals.

How it works

The algorithm treats a word as a maximal run of letters and digits with internal hyphens and apostrophes allowed:

It matches [\p{L}\p{N}] runs, permitting an internal - or ' between two such characters.
Every Hungarian accented letter (á é í ó ö ő ú ü ű and uppercase) is a Unicode letter and counts as a word character.
A hyphen inside a word, as in dél-afrikai, keeps the form as one word; a spaced dash used as punctuation separates words.

Characters are counted two ways: every character including spaces, and the length with whitespace removed. Sentences are counted by collapsing runs of terminal punctuation (., !, ?, …) so an ellipsis or a ?! combo counts as one boundary.

Example

The text:

A nagymama megszentségteleníthetetlenségeskedéseitekért aggódott.

contains four words: A, nagymama, megszentségteleníthetetlenségeskedéseitekért, and aggódott. The very long compound is counted as a single word because it has no internal spaces.

Notes

Mixed Hungarian-English text and Latin product names are counted sensibly because Latin letters are also word characters.
Numbers like 2026 count as one word; a number glued to a suffix with a hyphen, such as 2026-ban, stays one compound word as Hungarian expects.

Hungarian Word Counter

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