Word count for pages

There are times when it helps to know how many words per page you’re writing. While a general guideline is one page is 500 words (single spaced) or 250 words (double spaced), this is a ballpark figure. The truth is the number of words per page depends on a variety of factors such as the type of font, the font size, spacing elements, margin spacing, and paragraph length to name a few. While it’s not possible to take into all these factors when estimating how many words per page there will be for your writing, this calculator can give a more accurate words per page conversion estimate than the typical 250/500 ballpark figure.

The calculator is able to provide a more accurate conversion by taking into account more specific information. For example, you can choose from a different variety of common fonts to generate an estimate:

• Arial
• Calibri
• Comic Sans MS
• Courier
• Times New Roman
• Verdana

You can then choose your preferred spacing from the following options:

• Single spaced
• 1.5 spaced
• Double spaced

Finally, you can choose your preferred font size: 10, 11, 12, 13 or 14.

By using these three options to more accurately define your writing, the words per page calculator should provide a better estimate on how many words you need to write to fill a page. In the opposite direction, it can give a more accurate estimate of how many pages you have created if you only know the word count.

While we make every attempt to make our calculators as accurate as possible, the results won’t be perfect. This converter addresses some issues to provide a more accurate estimate, but in the end, it’s still an estimate. Other issues such as margin space and paragraph length will likely result in some variation from the calculations given. That being said, it should provide a more accurate indication of the number of pages a specific word count will be and the number of words per page you type when compared to the general rule of thumb.

How can we calculate the amount of pages per some words count?

Very often, the task arises to count the number of pages that occupy a certain number of characters and words.

It is not always possible to do this with precision. Much depends on the parameters that determine the page as well as the characteristics of the font.

Our words to pages calculator allows you to set page size, layout, font size, margins, and line spacing in the text.

The task of counting the number of pages for a certain number of words very often comes during ordering articles or descriptions from journalists, blog texts, as well as reviews and products overviews from freelancers.

In order to accurately understand the amount of work expected, customers often order a fixed amount of characters or words in the text.

In SEO page ranking, the determining factor is the amount of text on the page, its content and uniqueness.

With a text quantity of at least 500 words, the page starts to rank well and appear in search engines.

For the convenience of users, we have provided a table of correspondence between the number of pages, words and characters, taking for consideration Arial font and the default font size of 12 pixels. (please, check below)

Also, in the printing industry, one of the defining roles is defined by the resolution of printed material.

Our service sets this value to 300 dpi by default.

For the convenience of calculating the volume of pages, an user can choose any of the fonts supported by our system.

At the moment there are:

• Arial
• Times New Roman
• Courier New
• Courier
• Verdana
• Georgia
• Garamond
• Tahoma
• Trebuchet MS
• Impact
• Comic Sans MS

The set of fonts for counting words was determined based on those commonly used in printing and web design.

We emphasize once again that the accuracy of the calculator is approximate and is determined based on the average number of characters in the English language and amount of paragraphs that can be expected.

If you would like to analyze some text or calculate more precise staticstics you can always do it with our Word Counter.

Our users can always set the number of characters or the number of words and estimate the amount of corresponding amount of pages.

Our service is completely free and does not require any reward.

Any adjustments and recommendations for the counting algorithm are greatly welcome!

Who is this word-counting tool for?

This tool is made for anyone who needs to keep a count of their word, characters, sentences and paragraphs automatically. From teachers, students to bloggers, SEOs and content writers. For writing assignments or meta descriptions with specific word counts.

What is the best word count for SEO?

Many might suggest the longer the content, the better for ranking. But that’s a misunderstanding from studies, like Backlinko citing that the “average Google first page result contains 1,447 words”.

The length of your web copy should first be determined by how helpful the content is for your users’ needs – whether that’s getting an answer to a question or simply showcasing a product.

By checking the top ten results that rank for your main keyword and doing keyword research to understand which other words people search for, you can calculate how long your content should be, and whether you can answer the user’s intended search better.

Remember: word count is not indicative of quality!