Counting contractions as one or two words [closed]

Solution 1:

MS Word and the concordoncer I’m using count them as one. Some dictionaries may count them as two. It all depends on what your purpose is in counting.

Solution 2:

According to your question, "It's" is obviously a contraction of two words

... into one, right?

Where's the doubt, then?

In the given context, it is beyond question that "It's" is one word.

In a different context where you may be concerned with serious lexical parsing, you may need to treat it as two words, though.

Solution 3:

If it has spaces or other punctuation around it, it is one word, just as hyphenated words and compound words are. Each of these list items is a single word:

• won’t, he’ll, oughtn’t, ’tisn’t, I’d’ve, couldn’t’ve, o’rreaching, mine’ll, ain’t, durstn’t
• big-hearted, teeter-totter, to-morrow, now-a-days, snarf-n-barf, wine-colored, re-elect, vis-à-vis, tête-à-tête, air-cushioned, arch-enemy, salpingo-oöphorectomy
• cannot, tomorrow, yesterday, nowadays, windshield, Christmas, Halloween, Michaelmas, elsewhither, grandmother, crosswalk, corkscrew, overdiversified, overreaching, breastfeed