How many words would a 230 page book have to have?

Question

im writing a book, how many words would a 230 page book should have? thank you

Answer 1

Hope this helps:

"If you use Times New Roman, if your average word length is 5 characters, if you single space you will have 40 lines per page, you will average about 10.5 words per line, and will have about 420 words per page. (I mean regular 8.5 x 10 inch pages.) 25,000 words would come in at about 59.52 pages.

I have no idea how that would translate to book pages."

A very rough standard estimate is 250 words per double-spaced manuscript page. So if you'd written 25,000 words, you might have about 100 manuscript pages. (Don't bother with printed book pages -- the typeface, margins and other production tricks will make it a painful process.)

Since the margins, typeface and number of double-spaced lines may vary from author to author, the number of words you actually have on a manuscript page may be less than 250 words or significantly more. To get a more accurate count, you can count the number of words in three different, full lines on a page you've written, then average the number of words per line from those three numbers, then multiply the average by the number of lines on the page. That gives you an average page count for yourself. So say you discover you have 200 words per page. Then, when you reach 25,000 words, you should be at around 125 double-spaced manuscript pages.

Most major word processing programs have a word count function that you can use, and while they aren't a 100 percent accurate, they work well enough for estimates. If you really, really are dying to know how many words a published author wrote, then you can try the page averaging trick above to get an approximation on a printed book. But the length range for a novel these days is anywhere from 20,000 words (or 40,000 depending on who you talk to,) to infinity and beyond."

Answer 2

I don't think there is necassarily an amount. but in a sentence, there is and average of 15 words. there is an average of 7 sentences in a paragraph. there are basically 2 paragraphs on a decent page, that will equal to 210 (15x7x2) words on a page. 210 words multiplied by 230 pages is 48,300 words. that was is just an estimation though, i could be wrong

Answer 3

It could be one, it could be millions.

I came up with about 80,000 A page, bookstyle, holds 1,767 characters, divide that by typing words (5 characters), multiply it by 230, and it's a bit over 80,000. Don't worry if its less or more; you're probably using a lot of longer or shorter words than average.

Answer 4

The amount of words it would take to fill 230 pages of a hardcover or softcover book.

Seriously, if you really want to know then find a book and count how many words it takes to get to page 230.

An even better idea--write the book and do a word count on your word processor when it's finished.

Answer 5

pages usually about 300 words Ive always thought

Answer 6

are* you* retarded* asking* what* your* problem * Oh, the irony.

Answer 7

count words on one page and then mulitply it by 230 duh r u retated do the math stop adsking other people wat is ur prolblem