Are accented Greek vowels handled correctly?

Yes. The tonos vowels ά, έ, ή, ί, ό, ύ, and ώ, plus dialytika forms like ϊ and ΰ, are treated as ordinary letters. They are word characters, so a word like λέξεις is never split at the accent.

How does it detect the end of a sentence?

Modern Greek uses the period, exclamation mark, ellipsis, and the Greek question mark, which shares the semicolon glyph. The tool treats those as sentence terminators while the ano teleia raised dot acts only as a clause separator.

What is the accented words count for?

It shows how many words carry a tonos or dialytika. Since nearly every multisyllabic Greek word is accented, a low accented count can flag text where accents were stripped, which is common after copy and paste from some sources.

Does it work for polytonic Greek?

It counts polytonic text correctly because all Greek and Greek-Extended letters are recognised as word characters. The accented-word detector is tuned for the modern monotonic tonos, so older diacritics may not all register in that one statistic.

No. All counting happens locally in your browser. Nothing is sent to a server, stored, or logged, so private Greek documents stay on your device.

Greek Word Counter — Gera Tools

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This counter is built for modern Greek, where accents are an essential part of spelling rather than optional marks. The tonos sits on the stressed vowel of almost every multisyllabic word, and the dialytika marks a separately pronounced vowel. Both must be treated as letters so they never break a word apart.

How it works

The counter matches runs of Unicode letters and digits, allowing an internal apostrophe such as in απ' το or a hyphen. Because the pattern covers the full Greek and Greek-Extended character ranges, accented vowels like ά, ή, and ώ, and dialytika like ϊ and προϊόντα, are all word characters. Sentences are detected from terminal punctuation including the period, exclamation mark, ellipsis, and the Greek question mark, which looks like a semicolon ;.

Tips and example

In “Πόσες λέξεις υπάρχουν εδώ;” there are four words, and the trailing ; is the Greek question mark that ends the sentence, not a clause break. The accented-word statistic is a handy quality check: if you paste Greek text and see far fewer accented words than expected, the accents were probably lost during copying or encoding, and the text should be restored before publishing.