Words to Pages Calculator

At the academic default (12pt Times New Roman, double-spaced, 1-inch margins): about 4 pages. Single-spaced, about 2. The full quick answers: 500 words ≈ 2 pages double / 1 single; 1,500 ≈ 6 / 3; 2,500 ≈ 10 / 5.

Real documents contain non-flowing text: headings, a title block, block quotes, citations, and paragraph breaks that leave partial lines. These typically push real page counts a bit above the estimate — pleasant news when writing toward a page minimum.

Meaningfully. At the same point size, Arial sets wider than Times (fewer words per page) while Calibri sets slightly narrower. The old trick of switching fonts to stretch an essay is real — and every teacher knows it, which is why assignments increasingly specify word counts instead.

Invert the rate shown: at double-spaced 12pt Times, multiply pages by ~250 (a 5-page paper ≈ 1,250 words). Set that as your word-count target in your editor and stop thinking about pages until formatting time.