You can use a CountIf formul for that. This will count all cells
within row 11 that starts with "www".
=COUNTIF(11:11,"www*")

If you want to do a column, then:
=COUNTIF(A:A,"www*")

Neall wrote:
I am wondering if I can this

search a row and return a numeric representation of cells in that row that
start with the letters "www"

Thanks in advance
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Neall