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# Words Object (IWords Interface)

This object represents a collection of words. The collection is accessible via the [Paragraph](/fine-reader/engine/api-reference/text-related-objects/paragraph) object.

* The indexing of ABBYY FineReader Engine collections starts with 0.
* The foreach statement in C# (for each in Visual Basic .NET) can be used to manipulate the collection.

## Properties

| Name                                                                                                                  | Type                                                                                                                                                                                                          | Description                                            |
| --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | ------------------------------------------------------ |
| Application                                                                                                           | [Engine](/fine-reader/engine/api-reference/engine-object-iengine-interface), [read-only](/fine-reader/engine/guided-tour/advanced-techniques/programming-aspects/working-with-properties#readonly_properties) | Returns the Engine object.                             |
| Count                                                                                                                 | [int](/fine-reader/engine/guided-tour/advanced-techniques/programming-aspects/working-with-properties), read-only                                                                                             | Stores the number of elements in the collection.       |
| [Element](/fine-reader/engine/visual-components-reference/supplementary-objects/spellwordcollection/element-property) | [Word](/fine-reader/engine/api-reference/text-related-objects/word), [read-only](/fine-reader/engine/guided-tour/advanced-techniques/programming-aspects/working-with-properties#readonly_properties)         | Provides access to a single element of the collection. |

## Methods

| Name                                                                                                          | Description                                            |
| ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | ------------------------------------------------------ |
| [Item](/fine-reader/engine/visual-components-reference/supplementary-objects/spellwordcollection/item-method) | Provides access to a single element of the collection. |

## Related objects

<img src="https://mintcdn.com/abbyy/B_SRGbkkbQ9YH40E/images/fine-reader/engine/words.gif?s=c7ac54478fbf9c32041f0045877183ee" alt="Words" width="160" height="90" data-path="images/fine-reader/engine/words.gif" />[](/fine-reader/engine/api-reference/text-related-objects/paragraph#words)[](/fine-reader/engine/api-reference/text-related-objects/word)[](/fine-reader/engine/visual-components-reference/supplementary-objects/spellwordcollection/element-property)[](/fine-reader/engine/api-reference/text-related-objects/paragraph)

[Object Diagram](/fine-reader/engine/api-reference/object-diagram)

## Samples

The object is used in the following code samples:

* Linux: [CustomLanguage](/fine-reader/engine/guided-tour/samples#customlanguage)
* Windows: [CustomLanguage](/fine-reader/engine/guided-tour/samples#customlanguage), [RecognizedTextProcessing](/fine-reader/engine/guided-tour/samples#recognizedtextprocessing)

## See also

[Working with Text](/fine-reader/engine/guided-tour/advanced-techniques/working-with-text)

[Word](/fine-reader/engine/api-reference/text-related-objects/word)

[Paragraph](/fine-reader/engine/api-reference/text-related-objects/paragraph)

[Working with Collections](/fine-reader/engine/guided-tour/advanced-techniques/programming-aspects/working-with-collections)

[Working with Properties](/fine-reader/engine/guided-tour/advanced-techniques/programming-aspects/working-with-properties)