Estimate pages from word count for novels, manuscripts, essays and blog posts. Genre / formatting presets for trade paperback, double-spaced manuscript, MLA, APA and web.
Built and maintained by Paul Clark, Redmoon Software · Checked against what this tool computes on
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Pages = word count ÷ words per page. The "manuscript standard" (12pt Courier, double-spaced, 1″ margins) is exactly 250 wpp — what agents and editors use for length quotes.
Trade paperback (250–300 wpp) and mass market (350 wpp) depend on trim size and font. Web blog posts run roughly 500 wpp at 16px line-height 1.5.
The calculator divides your word count by a words-per-page constant: pages = words ÷ wpp. The headline figure always uses 250 words per page, the double-spaced 12pt standard, and prints one decimal place. Switch Mode to Pages → Words and it multiplies instead, turning a page target back into a word target. The table underneath runs the same arithmetic across eight fixed formats at once, so you see every answer from a single count.
Only two fields exist, Count (default 50,000) and Mode, so the row you read matters more than anything you type. Submitting to agents or editors, use Manuscript (Courier 12pt double) at 250 wpp. Estimating a printed book, use Trade paperback at 275 or Mass market paperback at 350. Single-spaced Word documents and blog copy both run 500 wpp, roughly half the page count. The preset buttons load typical lengths, Blog post 800 through Epic 150,000, and always reset Mode to Words → Pages.
Treat every number as an estimate. The words-per-page values are fixed constants, with no field for font, point size, margins or trim size, so MLA, APA and Manuscript all return an identical figure at 250 wpp. Real typesetting varies with dialogue, chapter breaks, part titles and blank pages, which usually add pages to a novel rather than remove them. Pages are rounded to one decimal, and nothing here counts front matter, footnotes or an index.
At the double-spaced 250-words-per-page standard the tool defaults to, 50,000 words is 200.0 pages. The same count reads 100.0 pages single-spaced at 500 wpp, 181.8 pages as a trade paperback at 275 wpp, and 142.9 pages mass market at 350 wpp.
The Manuscript row uses 250 words per page, meaning 12pt Courier, double-spaced, with one-inch margins. That is the figure agents and editors quote lengths in, so use it in a submission letter even if your word processor paginates differently on screen.
Both are stored at 250 words per page, the same constant as double-spaced manuscript, because all three describe 12pt serif type at double spacing. The tool has no separate handling for headers, works-cited pages or reference lists, so their page counts come out identical.
Switch Mode to Pages → Words and enter 10. At the 250 wpp double-spaced standard that is 2,500 words, exactly what the College essay preset loads. Single-spaced at 500 wpp, the same ten pages would need 5,000 words instead.
That is the Blog / web row's constant, based on 16px type at 1.5 line height. It is a rough screen-height equivalent rather than a real page, since web pages scroll. Use it to compare article lengths, not to predict a printout.
A page count follows from font, size, line spacing and margins, none of which the word count knows about. The rough conventions — around 250 words per double-spaced page and 500 single-spaced in 12-point Times with one-inch margins — exist because those settings were standard in academic and manuscript submission, not because they are inherent.
Change any of them and the count changes proportionally, which is why a page requirement and a word requirement are not interchangeable unless the format is specified.
A manuscript page and a printed book page have no fixed relationship. Typeset pages depend on trim size, typeface, leading and the amount of white space from chapter openings and scene breaks, so a 50,000-word novel might set to anything from 150 to 250 pages.
This is why publishers and agents work in word count rather than pages. Where a page count is requested — for a course assignment or a submission with page limits — the formatting specification is part of the requirement and should be followed exactly rather than approximated.
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