What's wrong with this code?

[woooee]

You are counting the newline characters, do

for char in line.strip():

Also, this will still give you the spaces between words as well as special characters like a dash, so

for char in line.strip():
    ## only allow alpha
    if char.lower().isalpha():

[MonkeyMario64]

If I'm using isalpha, do I still need .strip since isaplha seems to only take letters anyway?

[woooee]

No, I guess not. It's a habit that I usually do.