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Times New Roman 12 pt, double-spaced, US Letter, 1-inch margins
| Words | Pages |
|---|---|
| 250 | 0.9 |
| 500 | 1.8 |
| 750 | 2.7 |
| 1,000 | 3.6 |
| 1,500 | 5.5 |
| 2,000 | 7.3 |
| 2,500 | 9.1 |
| 3,000 | 10.9 |
| 5,000 | 18.2 |
| 10,000 | 36.4 |
1,000 words is about 2 pages single-spaced and about 4 pages double-spaced. In 12-point Times New Roman with 1-inch margins on US Letter paper, this calculator puts it at 1.8 pages single-spaced and 3.6 pages double-spaced; in 12-point Arial, 2.0 and 4.0. Every figure on this page is an estimate built from stated assumptions, because a page is a unit of layout, not a unit of length.
The table below covers the two settings people ask about most, 12-point Times New Roman and 12-point Arial on US Letter with 1-inch margins. Change any setting in the calculator above and the quick-reference table under the results recalculates for your exact combination.
| Words | Times New Roman, single | Times New Roman, double | Arial, single | Arial, double |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 250 | 0.5 | 0.9 | 0.5 | 1.0 |
| 500 | 0.9 | 1.8 | 1.0 | 2.0 |
| 750 | 1.4 | 2.7 | 1.5 | 3.0 |
| 1,000 | 1.8 | 3.6 | 2.0 | 4.0 |
| 1,500 | 2.7 | 5.5 | 3.0 | 6.1 |
| 2,000 | 3.6 | 7.3 | 4.0 | 8.1 |
| 2,500 | 4.5 | 9.1 | 5.0 | 10.1 |
| 3,000 | 5.5 | 10.9 | 6.1 | 12.1 |
| 5,000 | 9.1 | 18.2 | 10.1 | 20.2 |
| 10,000 | 18.2 | 36.4 | 20.2 | 40.4 |
A page holds as many words as fit on its lines, so the calculator starts from two measurements of each typeface: how wide its average character is and how tall one line is at single spacing. We took both from the actual font files. Average width comes from running a 9,613-character sample of ordinary English prose through each font's glyph widths; line height is the default single-line spacing the font declares, which is the basis word processors use for "single."
From there it is geometry. With 1-inch margins, a US Letter page leaves a text block 6.5 inches wide and 9 inches tall. Divide the line width by the average character width to get characters per line, divide the text height by the line height to get lines per page, multiply the two, and divide by 6.58, the average number of characters per word (counting the space after it) in the same English sample.
Pure geometry assumes every line is full, which real documents never are. Paragraphs end in short lines, first lines are indented, and headings take room. So the model applies one calibration factor to every font, set so that 12-point Times New Roman, single-spaced, comes out at 550 words per page, the widely repeated convention. That factor works out to about 0.77: roughly a quarter of the theoretical capacity goes to the white space of normal paragraphs. Spacing then divides the result, by 1.5 for 1.5 spacing and by 2 for double spacing.
The result is a consistent estimate, not a prediction for your specific document. A report full of headings, bullet lists or block quotes will run longer than the estimate; dense paragraphs with few breaks will run a little shorter.
Spacing matters most. Double spacing halves the words on a page, so it doubles the page count. Switching from single to double spacing turns a 2-page essay into a 4-page one without changing a word. Line spacing of 1.5 lands in between, at two thirds of the single-spaced capacity.
Size matters next. Characters grow in both directions as the point size rises, so capacity falls roughly with the square of the size. At 12-point Times New Roman, single-spaced, the model holds 550 words per page; at 11 point, 655; at 14 point, 404. Moving from 12 to 14 point costs you about a quarter of every page.
Font matters more than most people expect. At the same 12-point size and single spacing, the model fits these words per page on US Letter:
| Font (12 pt) | Words per page, single | Words per page, double | 1,000 words, double-spaced |
|---|---|---|---|
| Times New Roman | 550 | 275 | 3.6 pages |
| Calibri | 492 | 246 | 4.1 pages |
| Arial | 495 | 248 | 4.0 pages |
| Georgia | 488 | 244 | 4.1 pages |
| Helvetica | 471 | 236 | 4.2 pages |
| Verdana | 396 | 198 | 5.0 pages |
| Comic Sans MS | 374 | 187 | 5.3 pages |
| Courier New | 363 | 182 | 5.5 pages |
Courier New is monospaced, so a narrow "i" takes as much room as a wide "m", and Verdana's letters measure widest of the proportional fonts here. The spread between the most compact font in the list and the least compact is about 50 percent, which is why a page requirement means little until the font is fixed.
Paper and margins set the frame. The calculator fixes margins at 1 inch (2.54 cm) on every side, the setting APA and MLA require and the minimum for Chicago-style student papers. Narrower margins fit more words and wider ones fewer: if your template uses 1.25-inch side margins, each line is about 8 percent shorter, so expect about 8 percent more pages than shown.
APA 7. APA papers are double-spaced on 8.5 x 11 inch paper with 1-inch margins, and APA accepts several fonts, including 12-point Times New Roman, 11-point Calibri, 11-point Arial and 11-point Georgia (Purdue OWL's summary of the APA 7 rules). That flexibility moves page counts: 1,000 words is about 3.6 pages in 12-point Times New Roman but about 3.4 pages in 11-point Calibri or Arial. If an instructor sets a page minimum, the font you pick shifts you by a few tenths of a page per thousand words.
MLA. MLA asks for a legible font such as Times New Roman at 12 point, double spacing throughout and 1-inch margins on all sides (Purdue OWL's MLA general format). With those settings, 1,000 words fills about 3.6 pages of body text, before the heading block and the Works Cited page.
Chicago and Turabian. Chicago-style papers are double-spaced, and Turabian's guidance for student papers asks for margins of at least 1 inch and a readable typeface such as Times New Roman or Courier, no smaller than 10 point and preferably 12 (Purdue OWL's Chicago general format). The Courier option makes a real difference: 1,000 words is about 5.5 pages in 12-point Courier New, double-spaced, against 3.6 in Times New Roman.
Title pages, abstracts, reference lists and block quotations are formatted differently from body text, so treat the result as the body of the paper only. When an assignment gives both a word count and a page count, the word count is the more precise target.
Fiction and nonfiction manuscripts are traditionally submitted in standard manuscript format: 12-point type, usually Courier or Times New Roman, double-spaced, with 1-inch margins. You will often see 250 words per page quoted for that format, which makes a 1,000-word story four pages and an 80,000-word novel 320 pages.
Treat the 250 figure as a counting convention rather than a measurement. Our geometry puts a double-spaced page of ordinary prose at about 275 words in Times New Roman and about 182 in Courier New, and dialogue-heavy fiction, with its many short lines, holds fewer still. That gap is exactly why a manuscript's first page states a word count rather than a page count: words stay the same whatever the formatting.
If you are planning a printed book rather than a submission, remember that a book page is smaller and set in tighter type, so book pages and manuscript pages are not interchangeable. Estimate with the settings of the document you actually have in front of you.
Handwriting varies far more than type, so the Handwritten option uses one plain assumption: about 240 words per single-spaced page, based on roughly 30 writable lines of about 8 words each on lined letter-size paper. At that rate 1,000 words is about 4.2 handwritten pages, and writing on every other line (choose double spacing) doubles it. Font and size do not apply, so those two menus switch off.
For a better estimate, count the words on one page of your own handwriting and divide your target by that number. Large or loose handwriting can land well under 200 words per page; small, tight writing on narrow-ruled paper can go well above 240. Exams and in-class essays are graded on content, so treat the page count as a planning aid, not a target.
US Letter is 8.5 x 11 inches; A4, the standard size in most of the world, is 210 x 297 mm, or about 8.27 x 11.69 inches. With 1-inch (2.54 cm) margins, a Letter page leaves a text block of 6.5 x 9 inches and an A4 page leaves about 6.27 x 9.69 inches. A4 lines are about 3.6 percent shorter, but an A4 page fits about 7.7 percent more lines, so it holds roughly 4 percent more words overall.
In practice the difference is small: 1,000 words in 12-point Times New Roman, double-spaced, is about 3.6 pages on Letter and about 3.5 on A4. The gap grows with length, reaching about 1.4 pages at 10,000 words (36.4 against 35.0). If a teacher or client in another country asks for pages, check which paper size they mean.
The results also show a speaking-time range. Conversational speech usually runs somewhere around 130 to 150 words per minute, so 1,000 words takes roughly 7 to 8 minutes to deliver and a 2,000-word script about 13 to 15 minutes. Treat that range as a rule of thumb, not a measurement of any particular speaker: nerves speed people up, while slides, pauses and audience questions slow them down.
For a timed talk, write to the minutes rather than the pages, then rehearse once with a timer. The Word Counter shows reading and speaking time live while you draft, and the Readability Checker flags sentences that are hard to follow when heard rather than read.
About 4 pages. In 12-point Times New Roman with 1-inch margins on US Letter, the estimate is 3.6 pages; in 12-point Arial it is 4.0 pages. On A4 paper, Times New Roman comes out at about 3.5 pages.
About 550 words single-spaced and 275 double-spaced in 12-point Times New Roman with 1-inch margins. Wider fonts fit fewer: 12-point Arial holds about 495 single-spaced, and Courier New about 363.
Yes. Pasted text uses the same rule as the TextKit Word Counter: any run of non-whitespace characters is one word, so hyphenated compounds and contractions count once.
Headings, lists, block quotes, tables, images, title pages and reference lists all take space the estimate leaves out. The calculator models body text in continuous paragraphs, so structured documents usually run longer.
With 1-inch margins, an A4 page holds roughly 4 percent more words, so the same text takes slightly fewer A4 pages. 1,000 words double-spaced in Times New Roman is about 3.6 Letter pages and 3.5 A4 pages.
No. The calculation runs entirely in your browser. Nothing you type or paste is sent, logged or stored.