Sentence Counter
Count sentences, words and paragraphs in any text, with abbreviations and decimals handled and every ambiguous boundary reported.
How it works
- Type or paste your text into the text area.
- Sentence, word, character and paragraph statistics update automatically as you type.
- Copy a plain-text summary of the results.
Frequently Asked Questions
How does it decide where a sentence ends?
A full stop, question mark or exclamation mark ends a sentence when it is followed by whitespace and then something that can start one — a capital letter, a digit or an opening quote. Decimals like 3.5, initials like J. R. R. and known abbreviations such as Dr. and Inc. are excluded, so they do not split a sentence in half.
Is the count always correct?
No, and no tool without a language model can promise that. Sentence segmentation is a heuristic: an unusual abbreviation or a quotation with internal punctuation can still be misread. That is why the tool reports an ambiguity count alongside the total — a high number means treat the figure as approximate.
Does it handle other languages?
Word counting is Unicode-aware, so Cyrillic, Greek and other alphabetic scripts count correctly. Sentence splitting also recognises the full-width Chinese and Japanese full stop, the full-width question and exclamation marks, and the Arabic question mark — those need no following space, unlike their Latin equivalents.
What counts as a paragraph?
A run of consecutive non-blank lines. Several blank lines in a row count as one break, and blank lines at the start or end of the text are ignored.