07 Jan
I guess professional translators and other professionals who often deal with word and character count are well acquainted with this magic formula. Are you?
You may count your productiveness as, for example, 1 page per day. How much is it in characters? Characters with spaces? Lines? Being commonly asked to create text with a certain word count, I still sometimes get lost. So I took a page of plain text with a little formatting, and the statistics are…
| Characters with spaces | Characters without spaces | Words | Lines | |
| 10 pt | 4972 | 4283 | 697 | 55 |
| 12 pt | 3838 | 3311 | 535 | 46 |
Your word and character count may vary depending on page margin, applied font, font size, spacing, etc. For example, in a one page A4 with single line spacing, in Arial typeface are the following number of characters, words, and lines:
| Characters with spaces | Characters without spaces | Words | Lines | |
| 10 pt | 5153 | 4391 | 769 | 93.7 |
| 12 pt | 3542 | 3034 | 512 | 64.4 |
| 14 pt | 2682 | 2307 | 378 | 48.8 |
| 16 pt | 2129 | 1829 | 302 | 38.7 |
Once we change single to 1.5 line spacing in the text, figures contrast sharply:
| Characters with spaces | Characters without spaces | Words | Lines | |
| 10 pt | 3426 | 2938 | 492 | 62.3 |
| 12 pt | 2370 | 2039 | 332 | 43.1 |
| 14 pt | 1840 | 1577 | 263 | 33.5 |
| 16 pt | 1319 | 1123 | 196 | 24.0 |
Just to keep in mind, the average one spaced page usually contains about 3000 characters or 500 words. Depending on the text formatting, a page word count may include from 200 (large print) up to 600 words (academic book).
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8 Comments
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cool, i thought it was 250
Jenny Maraisa
Most helpful – thank you so much..
nonni
This was very useful! Thank you!
Zoe Schoenheit
Thank you for the help! I’m doing a project in school, and I need to write a two page essay.. This helped a lot!
Lulu Betancourt
Very helpful thank you very much
jobsway
the best site for word counting it is easy to count the words from the pages nice site
Aryan Verma
It was good
Natalie
Does the calculation not also depend on the font as well as the size? In Courier all characters including spaces and special characters take up the same space. In fonts most other fonts the space used by an “i” is up to 1/6 the size of the space of an “m”, with spaces taking up a bit more than an “i” but less than a capital “i” with serif.
Is it possible to get the information again using various print fonts used for published official and unofficial documents such as Times New Roman, Arial, Bookman, …?