Javascript for Kids · Lesson

Counting Letters

Count characters.

Counting Letters! 🔠

Hello again, word wizard! 📝 We counted words, now let's count letters! 🔠

How many letters are in your name? Let's teach the computer to count them! 🤖

Guess what? Strings have .length just like arrays! 📏

For a string, .length counts the characters (letters)! 🔠

let word = 'cat';
console.log('Letters in cat: ' + word.length);