Hello Claire Thompson ,

This is a difficult one to answer - but Trados Studio and Trados Workbench have more than a decade between the versions and there can be a lot of factors that affect the count.

Differences in Word counts can be attributed to many factors- for example-

1. Exclude locked segments from the word count
2. Deduct numbers and/or placeable elements like tags
3. Decide whether or not words that are hyphenated, joined by dashes, or words that contain formatting tags, should be counted as one or as several
4. Decide whether elements like acronyms, alphanumeric strings etc. should be considered as ‘Recognised Token’ and therefore considered differently during word counts
5. Display internal repetitions in the report and invoice them as 100% matches
6. Display fuzzy matches for segments that are similar within a project, even though they haven’t yet been translated

I also found the following articles- A few years old, but i think are really useful in this topic

https://multifarious.filkin.com/2012/11/13/wordcount/

https://tradoshelp.wordpress.com/2011/06/20/word-count-differences-between-trados-studio-and-trados-2007/

Hello Claire Thompson ,

This is a difficult one to answer - but Trados Studio and Trados Workbench have more than a decade between the versions and there can be a lot of factors that affect the count.

Differences in Word counts can be attributed to many factors- for example-

1. Exclude locked segments from the word count
2. Deduct numbers and/or placeable elements like tags
3. Decide whether or not words that are hyphenated, joined by dashes, or words that contain formatting tags, should be counted as one or as several
4. Decide whether elements like acronyms, alphanumeric strings etc. should be considered as ‘Recognised Token’ and therefore considered differently during word counts
5. Display internal repetitions in the report and invoice them as 100% matches
6. Display fuzzy matches for segments that are similar within a project, even though they haven’t yet been translated

I also found the following articles- A few years old, but i think are really useful in this topic

https://multifarious.filkin.com/2012/11/13/wordcount/

https://tradoshelp.wordpress.com/2011/06/20/word-count-differences-between-trados-studio-and-trados-2007/

Thanks very much, Steven. I suspect it's the hyphens and placeables that affect it and I've since done another word count in Office 365 Word and that is much closer to what Studio 2021 calculates.