word count

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English

Alternative forms

• wordcount

Pronunciation

• Audio (Mid-Atlantic US):

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Noun

word count (plural word counts)

1. The number of words in a passage, a text, a speech, a corpus, etc.
   • 2019, Li Huang, James Lambert, “Another Arrow for the Quiver: A New Methodology for Multilingual Researchers”, in Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, →DOI, page 8:

     At NIE cafeteria, we estimated the total word count of the combined signage to be about 3000 words.

Translations

number of words in a passage

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 字數 / 字数 (zh) (zìshù)

• Finnish: sanamäärä
• Japanese: 字数 (ja) (じすう, jisū)
• Russian: коли́чество сло́в n (kolíčestvo slóv), счёт сло́в m (sčot slóv)
• Tagalog: bilang ng salita

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