500,000 Words in Pages, by Format
| Format | Words per page | Pages |
|---|---|---|
| Manuscript, Times New Roman 12 pt, single-spaced | 642 | 779 |
| Manuscript, Times New Roman 12 pt, 1.5 spacing | 428 | 1,169 |
| Manuscript, Times New Roman 12 pt, double-spaced | 321 | 1,558 |
| Arial 12 pt, single-spaced | 628 | 797 |
| Arial 12 pt, double-spaced | 314 | 1,593 |
| A4, Times New Roman 12 pt, single-spaced | 678 | 738 |
| A4, Times New Roman 12 pt, double-spaced | 332 | 1,507 |
| Paperback 5" × 8", Garamond 11 pt | 265 | 1,888 |
| Paperback 5.5" × 8.5", Garamond 11 pt | 314 | 1,594 |
| Paperback 6" × 9", Garamond 11 pt | 384 | 1,304 |
Letter pages have one-inch margins; paperback pages use print margins and 1.15 line spacing. Paperback counts are rounded up to an even number, because every printed leaf has two sides. All figures are for typical fiction; dialogue-heavy text fills more pages, long-paragraph nonfiction fewer. Change any of it in the calculator above.
500,000 Words as a Printed Book
500,000 words is a novel by the length categories of the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers Association (40,000 words and up). As a 6" × 9" paperback it prints at about 1,304 pages; that is more than the 828 pages Amazon KDP prints in one 6" × 9" paperback on white paper (776 on cream), so a book this long is published in two or more volumes.
How Long Does It Take to Read 500,000 Words?
At the average adult reading speed of 260 words a minute for fiction, 500,000 words take about 32 hours and 3 minutes to read silently; nonfiction, read at about 238 words a minute, takes about 35 hours and 1 minute. Read aloud, at 183 words a minute, it takes about 45 hours and 32 minutes. Narrated as an audiobook, at about 9,300 words per finished hour, it runs about 53 h 46 min. The speeds come from a 2019 review of 190 reading studies by Marc Brysbaert. Reading time at your own speed →
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