word count
Document length measure
Word count is the total number of words in a piece of writing.
Writers track word counts to meet length requirements: The essay has a 500-word count limit.
Word processors display running word counts.
As a verb phrase, to word-count something is to tally its words.
- wordageAmount of words
- editingRefining content for clarity
- tokenizationConverting input into discrete units
- text analysisStudy of written material
- languageSystem of symbolic communication
natural language processing · frequency distribution · semantic analysis · collocation · formatting · essay · term paper · academic writing · writing · rough draft · document · submission · length · manuscript · deadline · trimming · cut and paste · filler words
- character limitssubject line
- college essaysprompt, scholarship essay, short answer, introduction, conclusion
- document toolstext editor, spell checker, grammar checker, find and replace, track changes
- text analyticsreading level, grade level, sentence length, reading time, text length
- text examinationproofreading, editing, close reading, annotation, skimming
- text toolsfonts, typography, text editor, spell check, spell checker
textual measurement unit
word countcharacter count
Number of symbols present
character limit · page count · reading time · file size · syllable count
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