"word count" meaning in English

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Noun

Audio: en-us-word count.ogg [Mid-Atlantic] 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)

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