YouTube title length checker

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0 Words

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Against a length limit

Hard limit 0 / 100 used

Shown in search 0 / 60 used

Shown on mobile 0 / 40 used

Sentences 0

Paragraphs 0

Unique words 0

Letters 0

Vowels 0

Consonants 0

Digits 0

Syllables (estimated) 0

Average word length 0

Longest word —

Reading time 0 sec

Speaking time 0 sec

Local · front-load the first 40 characters

Word

Type something and the most frequent words show up here.

YouTube allows 100 characters in a title and shows roughly 60 in search results and around 40 on mobile. The gap between allowed and shown is where titles fail.

How to use the youtube title length checker

1 Draft your text here rather than in the platform, where losing an over-long draft is easy.

2 Watch the bars — the truncation limit matters more than the hard maximum.

3 Copy the finished text across when it fits.

Writing to the 100-character limit means the last 40 characters exist only for the algorithm and never for a human. Since YouTube already uses the description and tags for topic signals, keyword-stuffing the tail of a title costs you nothing in ranking and costs a viewer the point of the video. Front-load: the subject in the first 40 characters, any qualifier after. Worth knowing that the visible length varies with the surface — a title on the watch page shows more than one in a sidebar recommendation, and the sidebar is where a lot of views come from.

Questions

How long can a YouTube title be? −

100 characters. Only about 60 show in search and 40 on mobile.

Should I use all 100 characters? +

Where does the title get cut? +

Do keywords in the title help? +

Are emoji allowed? +

Sources

Brysbaert — how many words do we read per minute?

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