wordcounts

Document length metrics

Wordcounts are tallies of how many words appear in a document, section, or body of work.

Writers track wordcounts to meet assignment requirements or submission guidelines: The essay has a wordcount of 2,500.

Software typically calculates wordcounts automatically.

Also spelled as two words: word counts.

quantify

tally

Recorded count

total · sum · aggregate · calculate · compute · measure · record · register · collate · frequency

lexical

vocabulary

One's word collection

type · lemma · corpus · concordance · keywords · collocations

statistics

data

Facts for analysis

mode · variance · histogram · distribution · percentile · range · outliers · correlation · concordance

Opposites
quantitative vs. qualitative assessment

wordcountsreadability

Ease of understanding text

substance · meaning · depth · eloquence · coherence

Family

wordcount

Familiarity
Top 1,000,000
Profile
Used worldwide · Timeless · Everyday, not technical · Rated G