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3.6
Pages
1,000 words
275
Words per page
~4
Handwritten
pages, average hand
How it works
Words to pages tells you how long a draft will print. Pages to words tells you how much to write when the brief says "five pages."
Set the font, size, line spacing, and margins your assignment asks for. The default is the most common brief: Times New Roman, 12 pt, double spaced, 1 inch margins.
The page or word estimate updates as you change any setting, along with the words that fit on one page in that format.
For the default assignment format (Times New Roman, 12 pt, 1 inch margins, US Letter), these are the numbers the converter uses:
Each font has a typical density for running prose at 12 pt, single spaced, with 1 inch margins: Times New Roman is the most compact of the common choices, Arial, Helvetica, and Georgia sit in the middle, and Verdana and Courier New are the widest. From there, the math is simple geometry. Text area scales with the margins, words per line and lines per page both shrink as the font grows (so density falls with the square of the point size), and line spacing divides the number of lines.
Handwritten pages are estimated at about 250 words per page, a common average for wide-ruled paper, which helps when you are planning an in-class or exam essay.
Real documents have headings, a title block, block quotes, short paragraphs, and dialogue, all of which leave white space and push the page count up. A paper with many one-line paragraphs can run 10 to 20 percent longer than the estimate; dense paragraphs with few breaks run closer to it. Word processors also differ slightly in how they set the same font. Treat the result as a planning number, then check the real page count in your document before you submit.
About 275 words fit on each page, so 1,500 words fills roughly 5.5 pages. A five-page minimum is met with room to spare.
About 235 words fit on each page, so the same 1,500 words fills roughly 6.4 pages. Switching fonts adds almost a full page.
Over the page limit? The sentence shortener trims filler and wordy phrasing so you lose pages without losing points. Under it? Every point still has to earn its place; padding is easy for graders to spot.
Pure Write Team
Updated October 2026
Why trust this guide
The words-per-page baselines come from typical densities of running prose in each font at 12 pt with 1 inch margins on US Letter, the format most US schools require. Every other setting is derived from those baselines with straightforward page geometry, shown in the section above.
FAQ
About 3.6 pages double spaced, or just under 2 pages single spaced, in Times New Roman 12 pt with 1 inch margins. In Arial at the same settings it is about 4.3 pages double spaced.
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