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Paste your writing and it is laid out in your chosen font and counted — not multiplied by 250. No text yet? Type a word count instead.
Every other words-to-pages tool multiplies by 250. This one lays your text out — in an off-screen box exactly the size of your page, in the font and size and spacing you picked — and counts. Then it shows you the arithmetic, so the answer is one you can check rather than one you have to trust. Free, no sign-up, nothing leaves your browser.
Paste, set the page up, read the answer.
Type, paste, or drop a .docx, .pdf or .txt file onto the editor. No text to hand? Type a word count instead and the arithmetic model takes over.
Seven fonts, nine sizes, four line spacings, six margin widths and five paper sizes. The tool tells you if a font is not installed on your machine.
Characters to a line, lines to a page, and where the number came from. Or work backwards: enter the pages you need and get the word count.
It is the most repeated figure in this category and it is wrong for the font almost everybody uses. Here is the same 1,500-word essay, 12pt, double-spaced, US Letter, one-inch margins — nothing changed but the typeface.
| Font, 12pt double-spaced | Characters to a line | Words to a page | Pages |
|---|---|---|---|
| Times New Roman | 98 | 360 | 4.2 |
| Calibri | 97 | 357 | 4.2 |
| Cambria | 92 | 338 | 4.4 |
| Arial | 89 | 327 | 4.6 |
| Georgia | 89 | 327 | 4.6 |
| Verdana | 77 | 283 | 5.3 |
| Courier New | 64 | 235 | 6.4 |
Two and a bit pages of difference, from the font alone. The 250 convention comes from a typewriter — pica type at ten characters to the inch, sixty-five characters a line, twenty-five double-spaced lines, ten words a line. Courier New still measures it, which is why publishers still count manuscripts that way. Times New Roman sets half as many characters again on the same line, and no tool that prints one number for every font can be right about both.
Every figure here came out of the model on this page, for 1,500 words. Recorded 26 September 2026.
Nothing changes except the space between the lines. The words, the font and the paper are identical in all four.
This is why a brief that asks for “five pages” and does not say the spacing has not really asked for anything.
One inch all round is Word’s default and the usual academic requirement. Widening them is the oldest trick for making a short essay look long, and it is more effective than people admit.
Paper matters least of the three, and still enough to round differently: those 1,500 words are 4.2 pages on US Letter, 4.0 on A4, 3.1 on US Legal, 8.7 in a 6×9 trade paperback and 10.3 on A5.
A page count you cannot check is a page count you have to take on faith. Here is all of it.
The text goes into an off-screen box the exact size of your text area, in your font at your size and spacing, and the height it fills is divided by the page height. That is a measurement of your words — your paragraph breaks, your word lengths, your line endings.
The mean advance width of a character across an 812-character prose sample, taken from each typeface on Windows on 20 September 2026. Not estimated, not copied from another site. They live in the source with a note telling the next person to re-measure rather than edit.
On a full page of prose the arithmetic fallback lands within 6% of a real layout on every font tested, and within 1.5% on most: Courier New 235 against a measured 237, Times New Roman 360 against 356; the worst case was Cambria, 5.8% out. Short text in many paragraphs diverges much further — which is the argument for measuring, not the case against it.
One thing this cannot do, and says so where it matters: it does not know about your headings, title block, tables, figures, footnotes or bibliography, and it does not know your word processor’s own paragraph spacing. Expect close, not exact. For a page count that has to be right, the document itself is the only authority.
Four reasons, none of them a bug, all of them worth knowing before you trust a number to the last decimal.
With the setup each one is normally given in. US Letter, one-inch margins throughout.
| The brief | Usually set in | Pages |
|---|---|---|
| A 500-word essay | Times New Roman 12pt, double | 1.4 |
| A 1,000-word essay | Times New Roman 12pt, double | 2.8 |
| A 1,500-word essay | Times New Roman 12pt, double | 4.2 |
| A 2,000-word essay | Times New Roman 12pt, double | 5.6 |
| A 3,000-word essay | Times New Roman 12pt, double | 8.3 |
| A 250-word abstract | Times New Roman 12pt, single | 0.3 |
| One full page of prose | Calibri 11pt, 1.15 | 746 words |
| An 80,000-word novel manuscript | Courier New 12pt, double | 340 |
These are the setups each brief is usually given in, not rules. A course handbook, a style guide or a submission guideline beats anything in this table — and if yours specifies a font and a spacing, put those into Page setup and use that number instead.
One row is worth reading twice. A page of Calibri 11pt holds 746 words of solid prose, and a one-page cover letter is conventionally 350 to 400 — because a letter is an address block, a date, a salutation, space between paragraphs, a sign-off and white space, not a full rectangle of type. Every number in this table is what the geometry gives you. What a document should contain is a different question, and this tool does not pretend to answer it.
Three jobs, one measurement.
A brief that says “six to eight pages” is really a word count in disguise, and the conversion depends on a font and a spacing the brief usually forgot to mention. Put the handbook’s settings into Page setup and you get the real target — then check whether you are short before the night before.
Publishers and agents count in manuscript pages, which is Courier New 12pt double-spaced — the one setup where 250 words a page is close to true. That is why an 80,000-word novel is about 340 manuscript pages and nothing like the bound book’s page count.
Reports, handouts, orders of service, scripts. The question is usually how many sheets, and the answer rounds up — so knowing you are at 4.2 pages rather than “about four” is the difference between trimming a paragraph and printing a fifth sheet with two lines on it.
Six pages, six different questions. They share one engine, so the word count always agrees.
How much did I write? Words, characters, reading time, readability and keyword frequency in one place, with a single pages estimate among them.
How hard is it to read? Six formulas, and every sentence graded so you can see which ones to open.
Will it fit? Characters with and without spaces, 35 platform limits checked at once, and exactly where your text gets cut off.
What people ask about converting a word count into a page count.
It depends almost entirely on the font, and that is the honest answer nothing else in this category gives. At 12pt, double-spaced, on US Letter with one-inch margins: 4.2 pages in Times New Roman, 4.6 in Arial or Georgia, 5.3 in Verdana and 6.4 in Courier New. Single-spaced in Times New Roman it is 2.1 pages. Paste the actual text above and the tool measures your copy rather than an average.
At 12pt double-spaced on US Letter with one-inch margins, about 360 words in Times New Roman, 327 in Arial and 235 in Courier New. Single-spaced, roughly double each of those. The widely quoted figure of 250 words a page is a Courier New number and is wrong by half for the font most people actually use.
Only for Courier New. It comes from a typewriter: pica type at ten characters to the inch gives sixty-five characters to a line, double spacing gives about twenty-five lines, ten words a line, two hundred and fifty words. Publishers still count manuscripts that way and Courier New still measures it — this tool gives 235. Times New Roman at the same size and spacing fits 360, half as many again, because a proportional font sets far more characters on the same line. The convention outlived the font it described.
It lays your text out. The text is put into an off-screen box exactly the size of your page’s text area — 6.5 by 9 inches for US Letter with one-inch margins — in the font, size and line spacing you chose, and the height it takes up is divided by the page height. That is a measurement of your actual words, not a multiplication. If you have typed a word count instead of pasting text, it falls back to the arithmetic model, and the page says which of the two produced the number.
Because a real document has things this tool cannot see: headings, a title block, indents, tables, figures, footnotes, a bibliography, and your application’s own default paragraph spacing. Expect to be close rather than exact. If you need an exact page count for something that matters, the only reliable answer is the document itself in the application it will be printed from.
More than the font does. The same 1,500 words in Times New Roman 12pt on US Letter run 2.1 pages single-spaced, 2.4 at Word’s 1.15 default, 3.1 at one and a half, and 4.2 double-spaced. That is the single biggest lever on the list, which is why a brief that says “five pages” without saying the spacing has not really said anything.
Yes, and people underestimate it. 1,500 words of Times New Roman 12pt double-spaced on US Letter runs 3.2 pages at half-inch margins and 7.7 pages at two-inch margins — more than double, with not one word changed. One inch all round is the default in Word and the usual academic requirement.
The tool checks, and says so. A browser silently substitutes a font it does not have, which would make the measurement an answer about a different typeface — so if you pick Calibri on a Mac or Garamond on a machine without it, you get a warning rather than a wrong number. The arithmetic model underneath always uses the real font’s own metrics either way.
On a full page of continuous prose it lands within about 6% of a real browser layout on every font tested, and within 1.5% on most. It was checked against seven measured layouts of the same thirty-paragraph passage on Windows: Courier New came out at 235 against a measured 237, Times New Roman at 360 against 356, and the worst case was Cambria at 5.8% out. On a short passage broken into several paragraphs the two diverge much further, because a blank line between paragraphs costs a whole line and there are far fewer lines to absorb it — a 150-word sample in three paragraphs can measure 25% under the model. That divergence is not an error in either number. It is the reason this tool lays your text out instead of multiplying, and the model is only used when there is no text to lay out.
From the fonts themselves, on Windows, on 20 September 2026 — the mean advance width of a character across an 812-character sample of English prose, taken for each face. They were not estimated and they were not copied from another site. They are recorded in the source file with an instruction not to edit them by hand.
Set the spacing to single in Page setup and read the number. As a rule of thumb, single-spaced is half the double-spaced page count, but only roughly — line spacing changes how many lines fit, and the last line of each paragraph is short either way.
Yes. Type the number of pages you have been set and the tool gives you the word count you need at your current settings, plus how far you still have to go. The honest caveat is on the page: if someone set you a page count, they had a font and a spacing in mind, and it is worth asking which.
A4, A5, US Letter, US Legal and a 6×9 trade paperback. A4 is slightly taller and narrower than Letter, so the same 1,500 words comes out at 4.0 pages against 4.2 — small, but it is the difference between four pages and five once you round up.
Yes, with no sign-up and nothing held back for a paid plan. It is geometry done in your browser, so it costs us nothing to serve and there is no reason to meter it.
No. The layout happens in your own browser and no part of this tool sends your text anywhere. Your draft is kept in your browser storage so a refresh does not lose it, and clearing your browser data removes it.
The Word Counter shows a single pages estimate as one figure among dozens. This page is built around that one question: every setting that moves the answer is exposed, your text is laid out rather than averaged, the arithmetic is printed so you can check it, and it converts in both directions. Both count words with the same engine, so the word count always agrees.
Working out the length is one job. These are the others.
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