Sentence Counter

Sentences are counted by splitting text at sentence-ending punctuation marks: full stops (.), exclamation marks (!), and question marks (?). Each resulting non-empty segment is counted as one sentence.

Most readability experts recommend 15–20 words per sentence for general web content. Academic writing typically runs 20–25 words per sentence. Short sentences (under 10 words) are easier to read but can feel abrupt.

Reading time is estimated at 200 words per minute — the widely cited average adult silent reading speed. A 1,000-word article gives a reading time of approximately 5 minutes.

A 1,500-word blog post at 15 words per sentence would contain around 100 sentences. There is no fixed ideal, but varying sentence length — mixing short and long sentences — improves readability and engagement.

The tool splits your text into sentences and measures the word count of each. The sentence with the highest word count is shown as the longest sentence, along with how many words it contains.

Yes. Paragraphs are detected as blocks of text separated by blank lines (two or more newlines). The counter accurately handles single-paragraph and multi-paragraph texts.

Yes. The sentence counter is useful for checking that your essay meets word count requirements, that sentences are not too long (which lowers readability scores), and that paragraphs are appropriately sized.

The tool uses punctuation-based sentence detection which works for any language that uses . ! ? as sentence terminators. Languages with different conventions (e.g. Chinese full stops ，。) may not be detected as accurately.