🔢 Page-to-Word Count Estimator
Convert between page count and word count, using standard formatting assumptions for printed books or double-spaced manuscripts.
One multiplier, three formats
pages → words = pages × words per page
words → pages = words / words per page
275 printed book page
250 double-spaced manuscript page
500 single-spaced pageA 300-page printed novel comes to 82,500 words. The same manuscript submitted double-spaced runs 330 pages, and single-spaced it collapses to 165. Results are rounded to one decimal, so 50,000 words is 181.8 book pages or exactly 200 manuscript pages. The 250-word figure is not arbitrary: it is what a double-spaced page in a 12-point monospaced font with one-inch margins holds, about 25 lines of ten words.
Picking the right assumption
- Use 250 when a publisher or agent asks. Submission guidelines and older contracts are written around the manuscript page, not the printed one.
- Use 275 to judge a finished book. Mass-market paperbacks with small type run higher, large-print and heavily dialogued fiction much lower – a page of clipped dialogue can hold under 150 words.
- Sanity-check against genre. Adult novels usually land between 80,000 and 100,000 words; middle-grade sits near 30,000 to 50,000. If your 300-page conversion says 150,000, one of the two numbers is wrong.
Frequently asked questions
How many words are in a 300-page book?
About 82,500 at the printed-book rate of 275 words a page. A 300-page double-spaced manuscript is 75,000, because the manuscript page carries less.
How many pages is 50,000 words?
200 double-spaced manuscript pages, or roughly 182 pages once typeset as a book. That is the classic novel-in-a-month target, and the short end of a publishable adult novel.
Why does my word processor disagree?
It is counting your actual font, margins and line spacing rather than a convention. Chapter breaks, white space and dialogue all cut the words on a page, which is why the printed page count of a finished book almost never matches the manuscript it came from.