How are ¿ and ¡ handled?

They are treated purely as punctuation. The tool never lets an inverted mark stick to the next word, so ¿Cómo counts the word as Cómo, exactly as a human reader would.

Which letters count as part of a Spanish word?

All standard Latin letters plus the accented vowels á é í ó ú, the diaeresis ü, and ñ, in both upper and lower case. Internal apostrophes and hyphens stay inside a single word.

How are sentences counted?

A sentence ends at a period, exclamation mark, question mark, or ellipsis. The opening marks ¿ and ¡ start a sentence but do not end one, so they are not counted as terminators.

Does it count unique words?

Yes. Words are lower-cased before comparison, so Casa and casa count as the same unique word, which is useful for spotting repetition.

Yes. All counting happens locally in your browser with no network calls, so nothing you paste is uploaded or stored.

Spanish Word Counter

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Counting words in Spanish needs care because Spanish opens questions and exclamations with the inverted marks ¿ and ¡. A naive counter can glue those marks to the next word or miscount sentences. This tool tokenises Spanish text correctly and reports words, unique words, sentences, paragraphs, and character counts.

How it works

Words are matched as runs of letters and digits, including the Spanish letters á é í ó ú ü ñ in both cases, with internal apostrophes and hyphens kept inside a single token. Because the inverted marks are not letters, ¿Cómo estás? yields the words Cómo and estás with the ¿ correctly dropped. Sentences are split on the closing terminators — period, exclamation mark, question mark, and ellipsis — while the opening ¿ and ¡ are treated as sentence starters, not endings. Unique words are counted after lower-casing so Casa and casa are the same.

Tips and example

For the text ¡Hola! ¿Cómo estás? the counter reports three words (Hola, Cómo, estás) and two sentences, with the inverted marks never attaching to a word. Use the unique-word count to check for repeated vocabulary in essays, and the character counts (with and without spaces) for fields that have strict limits such as meta descriptions or SMS messages.