Essay on Minimum Wages

best to rely on the rule of thumb here. Considering all the a’s and the’s, the average number of characters in an English word is 5. The spaces and punctuation marks also count as characters, mind.
There are about 16 words in 100 characters, I quess.

Google says that the average number of characters per word in English is 4.5. I agree with the previous scholars, though. It depends on what you actually write. Although my empirical knowledge tells me that there is no such thing as an “average text”, you can think of popular writing i.e., shiny hipster books, PopSci, tabloids, even tweets as the “average”.
They don’t normally use long words, do they.
Whereas other texts can use something like “tetragrammaton”, “machiavellianism”, “polyisocyanate”, etc. So, it’d be better if you stated what kind of text we are talking about here.

Too bad you don’t write in German. The answer for German is 0.5 – easy.

I think the number you look for is 20. I may be mistaken tho.

hard to say. everything you write, I mean letters, spaces, hyphens, commas, semi-colons (no one knows how to use them but still), full stops, etc., etc., counts as a character.

hard to say. everything you write, I mean letters, spaces, hyphens, commas, semi-colons (no one knows how to use them but still), full stops, etc., etc., counts as a character.

17 words I think

Let’s suppose that your average word has 7 characters in it. Then the number of words is about 15.