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Sentence Counter

Count sentences by splitting text on periods, question marks, and exclamation points — a simple heuristic, not full grammatical parsing.

How to Use Sentence Counter
  1. 1Paste your text
  2. 2View the sentence count
Frequently Asked Questions

It splits your text wherever one or more of ., !, or ? appear, then counts the non-empty resulting chunks.

No — since it splits on every period, abbreviations followed by a period will be miscounted as sentence boundaries, inflating the count for text with many abbreviations.

Not perfectly — a period inside a number is still treated as a potential sentence break by this simple heuristic, which can also inflate the count.

No — counting happens entirely in your browser.

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