Hello @GiseldaBeaudin ...
I did some testing in my own sandbox course. I am assuming that you are using the New Quizzes interface. The short answer is, yes, you will still be able to see the student's full typed essay even if it exceeds the maximum word count that you had established. For example, if you take a look at my attached example, you'll see that I made a New Quiz with a single essay question that required a minimum of five words and a maximum of ten words. Obviously, I went way over ten words when I submitted this as a Test Student. But, when I returned to my instructor view of the New Quiz and viewed the submission in the SpeedGrader, I was able to see the entire paragraph I had pasted in from the Cupcake Ipsum paragraph generator website.
I hope this will be of some help to you! Sing out if you have any questions...thanks!
