How to use the paragraph and word counter
Character count alone says nothing about how a piece of writing is built. Two drafts of the same length read very differently when one has ten sentences and the other has thirty. Paste your text here and you get paragraphs, sentences, words and characters at once, plus the average sentence length in words.
Paragraph splitting works two ways. Blank line treats a chunk separated by an empty line as one paragraph, which matches text copied from a word processor or a blog editor. Every line counts each line break as a new paragraph, which suits notes, lists and plain text files.
Sentences are counted by splitting on full stops, question marks, exclamation marks and ellipses. Abbreviations and decimal points inflate the count slightly, so treat the number as a close estimate rather than a parse. Characters are counted by grapheme, so an emoji counts as one.
Average words per sentence is a quick readability signal. Most plain-language guidance suggests keeping the average somewhere around fifteen to twenty words; well above that usually means sentences worth splitting. Everything is computed in your browser and nothing is uploaded.
Frequently Asked Questions
The tool splits on end punctuation, so abbreviations like "e.g." and decimal numbers add extra breaks, while lines without punctuation are merged. It is an estimate, not a grammatical parse.
Use the blank line setting for text copied out of a document or editor, and the every line setting for notes or lists where each line stands on its own.