fileprivate lazy var layoutManager = NSLayoutManager()
fileprivate lazy var textContainer = NSTextContainer()
fileprivate lazy var textStorage = NSTextStorage()

@IBOutlet var lblLabel: UILabel!

// in viewDidLoad
let longpress = UILongPressGestureRecognizer(
                target: self,
                action: #selector(handleLongPressed(_:))
            )
lblLabel.addGestureRecognizer(longpress)


// handle long press
func handleLongPressed(_ gesture: UILongPressGestureRecognizer) {
  let location = gesture.location(in: gesture.view)
  if let stringValue = text {

        // Text storage setup
        textStorage = NSTextStorage(string: stringValue)
        textStorage.addLayoutManager(layoutManager)

        // Text container setup
        textContainer = NSTextContainer(size: frame.size)
        textContainer.lineFragmentPadding = 0
        textContainer.lineBreakMode = lineBreakMode
        textContainer.maximumNumberOfLines = numberOfLines
        layoutManager.addTextContainer(textContainer)

   }

  let startPoint = self.layoutManager.location(forGlyphAt: 0)
  let newlocation = CGPoint(x: location.x - startPoint.x, y: location.y - startPoint.y)
  var fraction: CGFloat = 0

 let charIndex = layoutManager.characterIndex(for: newlocation, in: textContainer, fractionOfDistanceBetweenInsertionPoints: &fraction)

let tagger = NSLinguisticTagger(tagSchemes: [NSLinguisticTagSchemeTokenType], options: 0)
        tagger.string = text
        var range : NSRange = NSRange(location: 0, length: textStorage.length)
        let tag = tagger.tag(at: charIndex, scheme: NSLinguisticTagSchemeTokenType, tokenRange: &range, sentenceRange: nil)

        if let string = tagger.string, tag == NSLinguisticTagWord {
            let word = (string as NSString).substring(with: range)
            // You have the word: "World"
            print("word - (word)")
            print("location - (location)")
            print("charIndex - (charIndex)")
        }
        else {
            // Punctuation, whitespace or other.
        }

}