How does it work?

This tool sorts lines of text by their length in descending order, with the longest lines appearing first and the shortest lines last. The sorting is based solely on the number of characters in each line, not on the content or alphabetical order.

The sorting follows these rules:

• Each line is treated as a separate item to sort
• Lines are sorted by the number of characters they contain
• Longer lines appear before shorter lines
• Empty lines (length 0) appear at the end
• If two lines have the same length, their original order is preserved

Example

This is a very long line of text that will be sorted first.
A short line.
Medium length line here.
Tiny.
Another fairly long line that contains many characters.
Ok.

This is a very long line of text that will be sorted first.
Another fairly long line that contains many characters.
Medium length line here.
A short line.
Tiny.
Ok.

This tool is useful for:

• Prioritizing longer, potentially more detailed content
• Finding the longest lines in a text quickly (they'll be at the top)
• Organizing content by complexity (assuming longer lines are more complex)
• Identifying verbose or wordy sections in a document
• Sorting paragraphs or descriptions by their level of detail

Note: This sort is based purely on character count, not on word count or semantic meaning. A line with many short words might be longer than a line with a few long words.

Difference from ascending sort: While the ascending sort (shortest first) helps identify concise content, this descending sort (longest first) helps identify the most detailed or verbose content.

Related Tools

• Sort by Line Length (Ascending) - Sort lines by their length (shortest first)
• Sort Case-Sensitive A-z - Sort text in case-sensitive alphabetical order
• Sort Case-Sensitive Z-a - Sort text in reverse case-sensitive order
• Sort Case-Insensitive A-z - Sort text ignoring case
• Sort Case-Insensitive Z-a - Sort text in reverse order ignoring case

Parameters

• Text to sort: The input text containing multiple lines that you want to sort
• Sort order: Descending by character count (longest lines first)