WORDCOUNT Word count
Definition
Total number of words (tokens) in the text. Used as the denominator for per-word normalisation of feature counts.
Detection Rules
mfte
All non-punctuation tokens (MFTE counts words, not punctuation)
cql[word=".*" & upos!="PUNCT"]
Normalization
Per none
Sources
- mfte — Le Foll, Elen & Shakir, Muhammad (2023/2025) : Multi-Feature Tagger of English (MFTE) — Python version
Notes
A fundamental text property rather than a linguistic feature. Most taggers report this; MFTE outputs it as “Words” column.