Sentence Count

Type, paste or open a text, and the number of sentences appears as you type, together with the average number of “Words per sentence”, the length of the longest sentence, the number of words, characters and paragraphs, and the reading and speaking time. A sentence ends with a period, a question mark, an exclamation mark or an ellipsis, followed by a space or the end of the text, and the marks of Chinese, Japanese, Arabic and Hindi count too. A period after an abbreviation such as Dr. or e.g., after an initial such as J. or inside a number such as 3.5 does not end a sentence.

The “Longest sentences” list shows the five longest sentences with their number of words and marks the ones over 25 words, because long sentences are often hard to read: split them or cut what is not needed. Short sentences make a text easier to follow, and an average of 15 to 20 words per sentence is a good aim for most web and business texts. Select a part of the text to see how many words and characters it has. Files of up to 20 MB, such as .txt, .md, .csv or .html, are read in your browser and are not uploaded.