What the paragraph counter shows
Paste a text and see how many paragraphs it has, the average and longest paragraph in words, and a table with the sentence, word and character count of each paragraph. It is useful for essays with a required number of paragraphs, and for checking that no paragraph is too long.
What counts as a paragraph
You can choose how paragraphs are separated:
- A blank line: the usual way to write. Text between blank lines is one paragraph, even if it contains single line breaks.
- Every line break: each line is its own paragraph. Use it for text copied from a place that puts a line break after every paragraph without a blank line.
Lines that hold only spaces count as blank.
How long should a paragraph be?
For web pages, short paragraphs of one to four sentences, or about 40 to 80 words, are easier to read on a screen. Academic writing often uses longer paragraphs of 100 to 200 words. The table helps you find the ones that run too long.
Related tools
Count the sentences of the text, its characters, or its lines with the line counter. To remove blank lines between paragraphs, use remove empty lines. See the character count guide for more.