id,summary,reporter,owner,description,type,status,priority,milestone,component,version,severity,resolution,keywords,cc,focuses 40759,Word Count Discrepancies,pento,,"I've noticed several discrepancies between how WordPress, Pages, Google Docs, and Word count words. Given the following text, all four count things quite differently. {{{ a 1 foo-bar e.g. jack & jill 5 @ $4.99 . fuzz@baz.blog }}} || ||= WordPress =||= Word =||= Pages =||= Docs =|| || Individual Words (a, jack, jill) || 3 || 3 || 3 || 3 || || Individual Numbers (1, 5) || 0 || 2 || 2 || 2 || || Hyphenated Words (foo-bar) || 1 || 1 || 2 || 1 || || Abbreviations (e.g.) || 1 || 1 || 2 || 2 || || Punctuation that translates to a word (&) || 0 || 1 || 0 || 0 || || Punctuation that translates to a word in this usage (@) || 0 || 1 || 0 || 0 || || Punctuation that doesn't translate to a word (.) || 0 || 1 || 0 || 0 || || Compound number ($4.99) || 0 || 1 || 1 || 2 || || Email address (`fuzz@baz.blog`) || 1 || 1 || 3 || 3 || I tend to fall in the camp of ""what would a reasonable native speaker count as a word"", which is probably closest to Word's definition, minus the punctuation that doesn't translate to a word.",defect (bug),new,normal,Awaiting Review,Editor,,normal,,has-patch needs-refresh needs-testing,,administration