total number of words; total word count
Technical term used in corpus linguistics and text analysis to refer to the total number of word tokens in a text, including repetitions. Contrasts with 異なり語数 (number of distinct word types).
The total word count of this text is 500 words.
Comparing the total number of words with the number of distinct words reveals the richness of the vocabulary.
Formed from 延べ, “cumulative total,” and 語数, “number of words.”