How many pages is 1,000 words? 5,000? Set the font, size, and spacing — get the exact answer your professor will see.
Times New Roman and Arial come out roughly the same. Garamond squeezes more onto a page; Verdana takes more room. Calibri (Word's default) is slightly tighter than Times.
A jump from 11pt to 12pt expands your page count by about 20%. Many essay assignments specify 12pt for a reason — it's harder to pad.
Double-spacing halves the words per page versus single-spacing. 1.5-spacing falls in between. Most academic work is double; most blog posts are single.
In Times New Roman 12pt with 1-inch margins, 500 words is about 1 page single-spaced or 2 pages double-spaced. In 1.5-spacing, plan on roughly 1.3 pages.
At MLA defaults (Times New Roman 12pt, double-spaced, 1-inch margins), 1,000 words runs to about 4 pages. Single-spaced, it's 2 pages. This is the standard short-essay length in most undergraduate courses.
Around 6 pages double-spaced or 3 pages single-spaced in Times New Roman 12pt. A typical mid-length college essay.
Roughly 8 pages double-spaced and 4 pages single-spaced. This is the upper end of most weekly essay assignments.
About 20 pages double-spaced, 10 pages single-spaced. Typical for a term paper, research paper, or undergraduate dissertation chapter.
Both default to Times New Roman 12pt, double-spaced, with 1-inch margins on letter-size paper. APA also accepts Calibri 11pt and Arial 11pt as of the 7th edition. Set those in the controls and the count above will match what your professor sees.
Word factors in your actual headers, footers, footnotes, citations, figures, and any blank lines between paragraphs — none of which we can see from a plain word count. wordkit's number is the body-text estimate; expect Word to land within ±10%.
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