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# Characters to Words Conversion

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## How to use the characters to words calculator

Simply type the number of characters into the box that says "Enter Number" below the "Characters" box. Our characters to words converter will automatically update to give you a range of two numbers, a low estimate of words and a high estimate.

## How to reverse it and convert words to characters?

If you need to convert words to characters simply click the "Swap" button. Everything will work like before, but reversed!

### Do you need a characters to pages converter?

We also have a characters to pages converter on the far right. This will give you a range of the estimated number of pages. Keep in mind that this characters per page calculator will calculate the pages based on text typed with a double spaced Times New Roman 12 point font.

## How many characters are there per word?

On average, text contains between 5 and 6.5 characters per word including spaces and punctuation.

For example, The Great Gatsby averages 5.44 characters per word.

Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone averages 5.55 characters per word.

A typical New York Times article averages 6.05 characters per word.

Keep in mind that the estimate it gives includes spaces. To get an estimate without spaces simply subtract 1 from the estimation. For example, instead of an average range of 5 to 6.5 characters per word, the range without spaces would be 4 to 5.5 characters per word. You would then divide the total characters by 4 to get a lower range and divide the total characters by 5.5 to get the upper range.

### How the estimate is calculated

As mentioned earlier, most text contains between 5 and 6.5 characters per word. Our estimator tool will divide your number of characters by 6.5 to get the first number in the range and divide your number of characters by 5 to get the ending number in the range.

For example, if you type in 1000 characters above, you will get an estimated range of 154 to 200 words. The first number in the range (154 words) is achieved by dividing 1000 by 6.5. The last number in the range (200 words) is achieved by dividing 1000 by 5.

If you type anything in the box above that is not a number, for example a letter or symbol, you will receive a response that says "Invalid number". If this happens, simply delete what you typed and try again making sure to type only numbers this time.

## How to Make Your Writing More Readable?

Imagine you start reading some text and find yourself lost in the middle of a sentence. Okay, you aren’t focused and have to reread the paragraph one more time. And maybe one more. After a few times at best, you “trip over” lengthy uncommon words, can’t catch the main idea, and just give up reading. Such a situation is familiar to everyone and the reason for that is poor readability.

## What is Readability and Word Length?

Readability identifies how easy it is for an average person to read a text. Readability depends on several factors that influence text perception: sentence length (check sentence length with our sentence counter), sentence structure, and, of course, word length. Word length refers to using long or short words that determine the perception and general understanding of the text.

## Long Words vs. Short Words

In terms of readability, short words predominate long ones in most texts. The reasons are simple and evident. Coming across long and complicated words, a reader tends to lose comprehension and understanding.

Long and even unfamiliar words are difficult to read, so it reduces the chances that a reader will finish reading the text. In contrast, short words are familiar, easy to read and remember. They increase understanding and assure reading until the end.

## When to Use Short or Long Words?

Although we define short words as more effective for increasing comprehension, it isn’t fair to say that long words have only cons. Primarily, the choice of either short or long words depends on the context and target audience. Of course, if you write an ad copy, an article, a blog post, or a story for marketing purposes, word length should be taken into account.

If your goal is to make the main message understandable for a maximum number of people, it’s better to choose short words for the sake of understanding and better engagement.

However, working on a professional newsletter targeted at specialists in some field, preparing a scientific book, or writing a presentation devoted to any niche topic, you should consider "big words" might be better for this type of audience.

To sound more pompous and fancy for some purpose, a writer can select long words instead of short ones. The same refers to research, academic papers, or case studies that are usually based on an academic style of writing with an abundance of long words.

## How to Make Writing More Readable?

If you want to make your writing more readable for your purposes, it is better to choose short and common words. The more familiar words you choose, the more understandable it will be for the readers.

More importantly, short or even one-syllable words increase comprehension and leave no chance for the reader to miss the main idea of the text. Besides, there are both free and paid online tools like Grammarly, Readable, or Hemingway that allow you to check the readability score of your writing. It usually offers useful replacement suggestions for potentially difficult words for an average reader.

So, deep knowledge of a target audience and purpose of writing, the right choice of style, and useful tools will assure a high readability score.

### Thanks for using our tool!

For most people, it's hard to picture how long something is just by looking at the number of characters. That's why it's helpful to convert it to a words or pages to better get an idea of how long it is.

If you have ever wondered how many characters are in x amount of words, you've come to the right place. The characters to words calculator above will provide you with the characters to words conversion you are looking for.

Or, if you are wondering what the average characters are per page you can use our tool to calculate that as well.

And with the "Swap" button, you can calculate the average words per character.

If you want to find out the exact number of words in your text, you can copy and paste your text into our word counter.

Or to find out the exact number of characters in your text, you can copy and paste your text into our character counter.

Thanks for using our characters to words conversion calculator to estimate your characters to words, words to characters and characters to pages.