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2026-09-19
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large-language-models
How many tokens is 1,000 words? A conversion cheat sheet for LLM prompts
The iLostCount project published a token-conversion cheat sheet stating that 1,000 words of ordinary English is roughly 1,300 tokens, while 1,000 tokens is roughly 750 words or about 4,000 characters.…