diff --git a/lib/PBot/Plugin/FuncBuiltins.pm b/lib/PBot/Plugin/FuncBuiltins.pm
index f3e96b68..4f5175a3 100644
--- a/lib/PBot/Plugin/FuncBuiltins.pm
+++ b/lib/PBot/Plugin/FuncBuiltins.pm
@@ -104,7 +104,6 @@ sub initialize($self, %conf) {
             subref => sub { $self->func_maybe_to(@_) }
         }
     );
-
     $self->{pbot}->{functions}->register(
         'maybe-on',
         {
@@ -113,6 +112,14 @@ sub initialize($self, %conf) {
             subref => sub { $self->func_maybe_on(@_) }
         }
     );
+    $self->{pbot}->{functions}->register(
+        'length',
+        {
+            desc   => 'print length of text',
+            usage  => 'length <text>',
+            subref => sub { $self->func_length(@_) }
+        }
+    );
 
     $self->{tagger} = Lingua::EN::Tagger->new;
 }
@@ -285,4 +292,11 @@ sub func_maybe_on($self, @rest) {
     return $text;
 }
 
+sub func_length($self, @rest) {
+    my $text = "@rest";
+    my $count = 0;
+    while ($text =~ /\X/g) { $count++ }; # count graphemes
+    return $count;
+}
+
 1;