"word count" meaning in English

See word count in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Noun

Audio: en-us-word count.ogg Forms: word counts [plural]
Head templates: {{en-noun}} word count (plural word counts)
  1. The number of words in a passage, a text, a speech, a corpus, etc. Synonyms: wordcount Translations (number of words in a passage): 字數 (Chinese Mandarin), 字数 (zìshù) (Chinese Mandarin), sanamäärä (Finnish), 字数 (jisū) (alt: じすう) (Japanese), коли́чество сло́в (kolíčestvo slóv) [neuter] (Russian), счёт сло́в (sčot slóv) [masculine] (Russian), bilang ng salita (Tagalog)

Inflected forms

Alternative forms

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "word counts",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "word count (plural word counts)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Entries with translation boxes",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Japanese terms with redundant script codes",
          "parents": [
            "Terms with redundant script codes",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Mandarin terms with redundant transliterations",
          "parents": [
            "Terms with redundant transliterations",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with 1 entry",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with entries",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Terms with Finnish translations",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Terms with Japanese translations",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Terms with Mandarin translations",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Terms with Russian translations",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Terms with Tagalog translations",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2019, Li Huang, James Lambert, “Another Arrow for the Quiver: A New Methodology for Multilingual Researchers”, in Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, →DOI, page 8:",
          "text": "At NIE cafeteria, we estimated the total word count of the combined signage to be about 3000 words.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "The number of words in a passage, a text, a speech, a corpus, etc."
      ],
      "id": "en-word_count-en-noun-jPmfsAei",
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "word": "wordcount"
        }
      ],
      "translations": [
        {
          "code": "cmn",
          "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
          "sense": "number of words in a passage",
          "word": "字數"
        },
        {
          "code": "cmn",
          "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
          "roman": "zìshù",
          "sense": "number of words in a passage",
          "word": "字数"
        },
        {
          "code": "fi",
          "lang": "Finnish",
          "sense": "number of words in a passage",
          "word": "sanamäärä"
        },
        {
          "alt": "じすう",
          "code": "ja",
          "lang": "Japanese",
          "roman": "jisū",
          "sense": "number of words in a passage",
          "word": "字数"
        },
        {
          "code": "ru",
          "lang": "Russian",
          "roman": "kolíčestvo slóv",
          "sense": "number of words in a passage",
          "tags": [
            "neuter"
          ],
          "word": "коли́чество сло́в"
        },
        {
          "code": "ru",
          "lang": "Russian",
          "roman": "sčot slóv",
          "sense": "number of words in a passage",
          "tags": [
            "masculine"
          ],
          "word": "счёт сло́в"
        },
        {
          "code": "tl",
          "lang": "Tagalog",
          "sense": "number of words in a passage",
          "word": "bilang ng salita"
        }
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "audio": "en-us-word count.ogg",
      "mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/b/b2/En-us-word_count.ogg/En-us-word_count.ogg.mp3",
      "ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/b2/En-us-word_count.ogg"
    }
  ],
  "word": "word count"
}
{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "word counts",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "word count (plural word counts)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English countable nouns",
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English lemmas",
        "English multiword terms",
        "English nouns",
        "English terms with quotations",
        "Entries with translation boxes",
        "Japanese terms with redundant script codes",
        "Mandarin terms with redundant transliterations",
        "Pages with 1 entry",
        "Pages with entries",
        "Terms with Finnish translations",
        "Terms with Japanese translations",
        "Terms with Mandarin translations",
        "Terms with Russian translations",
        "Terms with Tagalog translations"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2019, Li Huang, James Lambert, “Another Arrow for the Quiver: A New Methodology for Multilingual Researchers”, in Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, →DOI, page 8:",
          "text": "At NIE cafeteria, we estimated the total word count of the combined signage to be about 3000 words.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "The number of words in a passage, a text, a speech, a corpus, etc."
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "audio": "en-us-word count.ogg",
      "mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/b/b2/En-us-word_count.ogg/En-us-word_count.ogg.mp3",
      "ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/b2/En-us-word_count.ogg"
    }
  ],
  "synonyms": [
    {
      "word": "wordcount"
    }
  ],
  "translations": [
    {
      "code": "cmn",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "sense": "number of words in a passage",
      "word": "字數"
    },
    {
      "code": "cmn",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "roman": "zìshù",
      "sense": "number of words in a passage",
      "word": "字数"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "number of words in a passage",
      "word": "sanamäärä"
    },
    {
      "alt": "じすう",
      "code": "ja",
      "lang": "Japanese",
      "roman": "jisū",
      "sense": "number of words in a passage",
      "word": "字数"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "kolíčestvo slóv",
      "sense": "number of words in a passage",
      "tags": [
        "neuter"
      ],
      "word": "коли́чество сло́в"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "sčot slóv",
      "sense": "number of words in a passage",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "счёт сло́в"
    },
    {
      "code": "tl",
      "lang": "Tagalog",
      "sense": "number of words in a passage",
      "word": "bilang ng salita"
    }
  ],
  "word": "word count"
}

Download raw JSONL data for word count meaning in English (2.4kB)


This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable English dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-12-21 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-12-04 using wiktextract (d8cb2f3 and 4e554ae). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.