Is it possible to sort by word count

I have a list of titles and wish to arrange them by the number of words in each title, any suggestions gratefully received

Hi FF,
Word processing applications usually define a 'word' as a group of characters followed by a space (or a return).
I haven't foud a way to directly count the number of spaces in a string of text, but Numbers does support FIND() which can determine the position of a specific character's first appearance in a string or after a specified position in a string.
That's the method used in the coloured cells of the table below.
C2: =IFERROR(FIND(" ",$B,1+MAX($B2:B2)),"")
Fill right for as many cells as there are words in the 'longest' title.
Fill down to the end of the table.
A count of the cells containing numbers in the row (not including the cell in A, which must be a Header column) will give the number of spaces in the title. Add 1 for the number of words in the title.
A2: =IF(LEN(B)>0,COUNTIF(2:2,">0")+1,"")
Fill down to the last row in the table.
Sort on column A to arrange the titles by length in words.
Note the results in rows 5 and 6.
Row 5 contains the title of Paul Zindel's 1964 play as he wrote it. Man-in-the-Moon is considered as a single word in the count.
Row 6 contains the same title with the hyphens replaced by spaces. Man in the Moon now counts as 4 words.
Rows 7 and 8:
George Orwell's title is read as a number. As it's greater than 0, the number is included in the count. 1 is added to account for there being no space after the 'last word' in the title to give a count of 2. (Result is the same when the title is entered as '1984 (the leading ' tells Numbers, and other spreadsheets, to format the cell as text), of when the cell's format is set to Text using the Inspector.)
In row 8, 1984 is enclosed in quotation marks, and is now treated as text (with a numerical value of zero).
As noted, the columns doing the calculations may be hidden.
Regards,
Barry

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