The Words to Pages Converter turns a word count into a page count for the font, font size, line spacing, paper and margins you choose, and works the other way round to tell you how many words fill a given number of pages. In the most common school format, 12 pt Times New Roman with 1 inch margins, a single-spaced page holds about 500 words and a double-spaced page about 250, so 1,000 words is 2 pages single-spaced or 4 pages double-spaced. Other fonts change that noticeably: Arial and Georgia are wider than Times New Roman and fit about 438 and 451 words on a single-spaced page, while Verdana and Courier New fit only about 353. Font size matters more than people expect, because a smaller size fits more characters on each line and more lines on each page: 11 pt fits about 19 percent more words than 12 pt, and 10 pt about 44 percent more. Enter a word count, switch to Pages to words to find out how much you need to write, or paste your text to count it and convert it in one step. A table compares all six fonts single and double spaced, and the page count comes with the reading and speaking time for the same text. Everything runs in your browser. To count the words in a draft first, use Word Counter; for character limits use Character Counter, and for a custom reading speed Reading Time Calculator.
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.