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Paragraph Counter
Count paragraphs and see how long each one really runs.
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Paragraph breakdown
Paragraphs over 150 words are flagged, since a wall of text is where readers scroll past.
Quick Tool Overview
The Paragraph Counter counts the paragraphs in your text and shows the words, sentences and characters inside each one. It makes the difference obvious between an article that is genuinely three tidy paragraphs and one enormous paragraph wearing a disguise.
- What it does
- Counts paragraphs and measures the length of every one
- You give it
- Text separated by blank lines, or one paragraph per line
- You get back
- A paragraph total plus a per-paragraph breakdown
- Best for
- Essays with a paragraph brief, blog structure and mobile readability
About the Paragraph Counter
Paragraph count is the number people are actually set: five paragraphs for an essay, three for an introduction, one per idea. Paste your text and you get the total, plus the words, sentences and characters inside every single paragraph.
A blank line is treated as the paragraph break, which is how text pasted out of a document, an email or a CMS is structured. If your writing runs one paragraph per line with no blank line between them, flip the toggle and each line is counted on its own.
Anything over 150 words is flagged, because a paragraph that long is a wall of text on a phone screen. The breakdown makes the offenders obvious, so you can see at a glance whether your article is three tidy paragraphs or one enormous one wearing a disguise.
Key features of the Paragraph Counter
Two ways to detect a break
Blank lines are the default, matching text pasted from a document or a CMS, and a toggle switches to one paragraph per line.
Per-paragraph breakdown
Words, sentences and characters are counted inside each paragraph, not just across the whole piece.
Wall-of-text warning
Anything over 150 words is flagged, because a paragraph that long is unreadable on a phone screen.
Live recounting
Split a long paragraph and the totals and flags update immediately.
Handles pasted formatting
Copy straight out of Word, Google Docs or a CMS and the paragraph structure is read correctly.
How to use the Paragraph Counter
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Paste your text
Drop in an article, an essay or a chapter. Leave a blank line between paragraphs as normal.
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Read the totals
Paragraphs, words, sentences and the average paragraph length appear above the box.
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Check the breakdown
Every paragraph is listed with its word, sentence and character counts, and long ones are flagged.
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Break up the long ones
Split anything over 150 words into two, and watch the flags clear as you edit.
Frequently asked questions
By default, a block of text separated from the next by a blank line. That matches how paragraphs survive a copy and paste out of Word, Google Docs, email or a web page.
Turn on the option to treat every line as a new paragraph. Each line break then starts a new paragraph, which is how text exported from some editors and subtitle files is laid out.
For the web, three to five sentences or roughly 40 to 100 words reads comfortably on a phone. Print and academic writing tolerate more. The 150-word flag here is a prompt to look, not a rule you have broken.
Yes. A heading on its own line with a blank line after it is counted as a short paragraph, because plain text carries no formatting to tell the two apart.
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