1,500 words is about 3 pages single-spaced or 6 pages double-spaced in 12 pt Times New Roman with 1 inch margins on US Letter paper. In 12 pt Arial, which is wider, the same text takes 3.4 pages single-spaced or 6.9 pages double-spaced. With 1.5 line spacing it is 4.5 pages, in Calibri 11 pt single-spaced 2.8 pages, and in Courier New double-spaced, the monospaced font used for screenplays and some manuscripts, 8.4 pages. On A4 paper the text area is slightly larger, so 1,500 words double-spaced in Times New Roman comes to 5.8 pages. Fifteen hundred words is a standard length for college essays and literature responses, and for long form blog posts that aim to rank in search. Six double-spaced pages gives room for an introduction, four or five developed sections and a conclusion. As a speech it runs a little over 11 minutes, which is why it is also a common length for a conference talk script or a eulogy that should not exceed ten to twelve minutes. Subheadings help a reader at this length and add a few lines per page. The calculator above opens with 1,500 words already entered; change the font, size, spacing, paper or margins and the page count updates, and the table compares every font at once. Reading 1,500 words silently takes about 6 min 18 sec at an average adult pace, and reading them aloud takes about 11 min 32 sec. To check the length of a draft, paste it into Word Counter. For nearby lengths see How Many Pages Is 1,000 Words? and How Many Pages Is 2,000 Words?.
Page counts are an estimate because a page is not a fixed amount of text. What a page holds depends on how wide the letters of a font are, how tall each line is, how much of the page the margins take, and how the text is broken into paragraphs, since the last line of each paragraph is usually only partly filled. This converter starts from the convention most schools and editors use, 500 words for a single-spaced and 250 for a double-spaced page of 12 pt Times New Roman with 1 inch margins on US Letter, which already allows for normal paragraph breaks. Other fonts are scaled by their average character width and line height compared with Times New Roman: Courier New is monospaced and every character takes 0.6 of the font size, about 40 percent more than the average Times New Roman character, so it fits far fewer words. Line spacing multiplies the line height, so 1.5 spacing holds two thirds as much as single spacing and double spacing half as much. When an assignment gives a page count rather than a word count, the instructor almost always means double-spaced 12 pt Times New Roman or Arial with 1 inch margins unless the brief says otherwise. Title pages, reference lists and appendices are normally excluded from both page and word limits.