Words to pages calculator: how many pages is 5,000 words?
5,000 words fills about 22 pages as a lead magnet on US Letter and about 24 as a nonfiction book on a 6 × 9 in page, cover and front matter included. The calculator works it out for any length, kind, page size and look, from the pages Chapbook's sample books actually came out at.
Words to pages calculator
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Changing the kind sets the page size and look a new book of that kind starts with.
About
18 pages
- Pages of text
- 14
- Words a page of text
- 287
- Cover and front matter
- 4
Measured on Five Pricing Mistakes (the same kind, page size and look): 287 words a page of text.
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Pages at a glance
Each kind at the page size and look a new book of it starts with.
| Words | Lead magnet, US Letter, Editorial look | Nonfiction book, 6 × 9 in, Editorial look |
|---|---|---|
| 1,000 | about 8 | about 8 |
| 2,500 | about 13 | about 14 |
| 5,000 | about 22 | about 24 |
| 10,000 | about 39 | about 44 |
| 20,000 | about 74 | about 84 |
| 40,000 | about 144 | about 163 |
Measured from the sample books
Each one's exported PDF, cover and front matter set apart from the pages of text.
| Sample | Set as | Words | Pages | A page of text |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Five Pricing Mistakes | Lead magnet, US Letter, Editorial | 3,735 | 17 | 287 words |
| World Book Day | Brochure, US Letter, Warm | 612 | 6 | 122 words |
| Find Your First 100 Readers | Workbook, US Letter, Editorial | 5,850 | 24 | 293 words |
| The Pricing Playbook | Nonfiction book, 6 × 9 in, Editorial | 9,862 | 43 | 253 words |
| The Welcome Sequence | Lead magnet, US Letter, Modern | 3,626 | 17 | 279 words |
| Slow Money | Nonfiction book, 6 × 9 in, Classic | 9,273 | 37 | 281 words |
| The First Harvest | Workbook, US Letter, Modern | 5,175 | 20 | 323 words |
How the estimate is made
Every Chapbook sample book was written from one brief and exported through the same typesetting the app uses. Each one’s PDF says how many pages it came out at, and which of them are the cover, title page, copyright and contents. What is left is its pages of text, and its words divided by those pages is its words per page.
The calculator takes the samples closest to what you pick: the same page size first, then the same kind and look, the same kind, the same look, or any look. It pools their words and pages, divides your words by the result, rounds up, and adds the front matter your kind of book has. It tells you which samples it used, so you can judge how close they are to your book.
What it does not count
Pictures take room: a kind of book that carries them, such as a brochure, is measured only on samples that have them. Chapter openers matter too: each chapter starts a new page, so a book of many short chapters runs a little longer than the estimate. An EPUB has no fixed pages at all; this is the PDF’s count.
