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A paragraph here is a block of text separated from its neighbors by a blank line. The tool counts not just how many there are, but also their average "density": how many words and sentences an average paragraph has, and which one is the longest.

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Result

Paragraphs
Average words per paragraph
Average sentences per paragraph
Words in the longest paragraph

This page has no server side at all. The table you paste is parsed by JavaScript inside your own browser, the chart is drawn on a canvas element on your machine, and the export file is assembled locally. Nothing is uploaded, stored or written to any log. You can disconnect from the network after the page has loaded and everything will still work — which is the simplest way to verify the claim yourself.

Facts and limits of this method

Paragraph A block of text separated from its neighbors by one or more blank lines
A line break without a blank line Does not start a new paragraph — it's treated as part of the current one
Average word count Total words across all paragraphs ÷ number of paragraphs
Longest paragraph The highest word count among all paragraphs found

When it misleads you

How it is calculated

The text is split into paragraphs on the pattern "one or more consecutive blank lines" — each resulting non-empty block is a paragraph.

For each paragraph, words (runs of non-whitespace characters) and sentences (fragments between periods/exclamation/question marks) are counted separately.

The average words and sentences per paragraph are obtained by dividing the totals across all paragraphs by the paragraph count.

The longest paragraph is determined by word count — the maximum value among all paragraphs is selected.

Questions and answers

What exactly counts as a paragraph?

A block of text separated from its neighbors by one or more blank lines. A single line break without a blank line between them doesn't split a paragraph.

Why was my text counted as one paragraph when it clearly has several ideas?

There's probably no fully blank line between the sections — just single line breaks. Add a blank line between paragraphs and the counter will tell them apart.

Is the average paragraph length exact?

It's based on the same word/sentence counting logic as the standalone word and sentence counters, with the same limitations — abbreviations and decimal numbers can slightly skew the sentence count.

Is my text sent anywhere?

No, the whole count runs in your browser.

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