diff --git a/instant-segment/src/lib.rs b/instant-segment/src/lib.rs
index 0c10cdb..13e1a3a 100644
--- a/instant-segment/src/lib.rs
+++ b/instant-segment/src/lib.rs
@@ -77,13 +77,17 @@ impl Segmenter {
         &self,
         input: &str,
         search: &'a mut Search,
-    ) -> Result<impl ExactSizeIterator<Item = &'a str>, InvalidCharacter> {
+    ) -> Result<Segments<'a>, InvalidCharacter> {
         let state = SegmentState::new(Ascii::new(input)?, self, search);
-        if !input.is_empty() {
-            state.run();
-        }
+        let score = match input {
+            "" => 0.0,
+            _ => state.run(),
+        };
 
-        Ok(search.result.iter().map(|v| v.as_str()))
+        Ok(Segments {
+            iter: search.result.iter(),
+            score,
+        })
     }
 
     /// Returns the sentence's score
@@ -142,6 +146,32 @@ impl Segmenter {
     }
 }
 
+pub struct Segments<'a> {
+    iter: std::slice::Iter<'a, String>,
+    score: f64,
+}
+
+impl Segments<'_> {
+    /// Returns the score of the segmented text
+    pub fn score(&self) -> f64 {
+        self.score
+    }
+}
+
+impl<'a> Iterator for Segments<'a> {
+    type Item = &'a str;
+
+    fn next(&mut self) -> Option<Self::Item> {
+        self.iter.next().map(|v| v.as_str())
+    }
+}
+
+impl ExactSizeIterator for Segments<'_> {
+    fn len(&self) -> usize {
+        self.iter.len()
+    }
+}
+
 struct SegmentState<'a> {
     data: &'a Segmenter,
     text: Ascii<'a>,
diff --git a/instant-segment/src/test_cases.rs b/instant-segment/src/test_cases.rs
index 8fbf207..20a3a11 100644
--- a/instant-segment/src/test_cases.rs
+++ b/instant-segment/src/test_cases.rs
@@ -3,7 +3,9 @@ use crate::{Search, Segmenter};
 /// Run a segmenter against the built-in test cases
 pub fn run(segmenter: &Segmenter) {
     let mut search = Search::default();
-    assert_eq!(segmenter.segment("", &mut search).unwrap().len(), 0);
+    let segments = segmenter.segment("", &mut search).unwrap();
+    assert_eq!(segments.len(), 0);
+    assert_eq!(segments.score(), 0.0);
 
     let mut success = true;
     for test in TEST_CASES.iter().copied() {