word counts
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Word counts are tallies of the number of words in a document, section, or passage.
Writers track word counts to meet requirements or limits: The essay has a 500-word count.
Software typically calculates word counts automatically.
As a verb phrase, word counts means that language matters: In diplomacy, every word counts.
- quantitiesMeasured amounts or numbers
- tallyRecorded count
- lengthMeasure of extent
- draftsPreliminary written versions
- rough draftUnpolished first attempt
essays · texts · documents · characters · sections · paragraphs · maximum · writings · manuscripts · unit · pages · lines · limit · literary journals · chapbooks · style manuals · proofreading · track changes
- corpus linguisticscorpus, concordance, n-grams, bigram, collocation
- web fictionwebnovels, web serial, web fiction, web novel, fan fiction
- journalismreporters, interview, editors, student editors, school paper
quantitative vs. qualitative text analysis
word countssubstance
Physical material with mass
meaning · readability · clarity · narrative structure · prose style
word, words, worded, wording, wordy, wordless, wordsmith, count, counts