You can also do a find and replace for periods and replace them with a period 2/3 font sizes bigger. Nearly undetectable unless you're looking for it and it turned many an 8 page paper to a 10 page paper for me in college.
I had a word count, but really no lecturers enforced this. They actually appreciated that most assignments could be done in half the word count if you didn't needlessly fluff the thing.
I think in many cases, at least for mine the "word count" was actually a word limit. Obviously you couldn't write nothing but I regularly wrote 50-80% of the quoted number. Lecturers definitely appreciate more concise writing that still gets the points across (especially when they are marking 30+ of them).
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u/Wonderful-Hall-7929 14d ago
Did the same but the other way around: Increased the font from 10 to 12 because "That's too short!".