In this novel, a boy with facial anomalies tries to navigate the sometimes treacherous world of public school. You will find over 1,000 words in alphabetical order. Lets assume that you actually finished the book and felt that it was worth the effort. A good example is the wonderful little personalspiritual guide, the four agreements, by don miguel ruiz, which averages about 10 words per line x 20 lines per page 200 words per page. Money is hard to miss its probably the ultimate greed word and its sitting there in capital letters. By most peoples standards, 40,000 words would be pretty short for a novel. The adjective excellent already appears in our list of 201 commonly misspelled words. Zettels traum is in second place with an estimated word count of 000 in 1 volume. Unscramble book words unscrambled from letters book. For most publishers, a book is novellength when its between 50,000 and 110,000 words.
Word count for famous novels organized by hawthorn mineart, under books, writing. Studies show that studying the first most frequently used words in the language will familiarize you with 76. According to amazons great text stats feature, the median length for all books is about 64,000 words. Thats the level where publishers may suggest dividing a story into multiple volumes.
However, it will be on the short side, as the average length of a novel hovers around 50,00070,000 words. These include using published information about the book to determine an exact word count, estimating the number of words based on industry standards and. Where needed, the part of speech is identified to distinguish different grammatical uses of the same word. Search for word count totals in books word counters. The lost words is a beautiful book and, in terms of ideas, an important one.
Alexander solzhenitsyn, one day in the life of ivan denisovich suggested by jasmin b. On the upper end, a novel over 110,000 words is considered an epic. Word count for famous novels organized commonplace book. Harry potter and the deathly hallows 198,000 words. Martin tupper, british author some books leave us free and some books make us free. This translates into just 20,000 to 25,000 words for a 100 page book, 30,000 to 42,500 words for a 150page book, perhaps just 40,000 words for a 200page book. Popular sight words books meet your next favorite book. Its explicit and implicit use of greed words makes this popular book from dave ramsey a great example.
A list of 100 words that occur most frequently in written english is given below, based on an analysis of the oxford english corpus a collection of texts in the english language, comprising over 2 billion words. A part of speech is provided for most of the words, but part of speech categories vary between analyses, and not all possibilities are listed. In search of lost time, is as per the guinness book of records, holder of the longest novels. Richard nordquist is professor emeritus of rhetoric and english at georgia southern university and the author of several universitylevel grammar and composition textbooks. The end of the book includes a short glossary of terms to help readers with certain concepts such as bel canto, leitmotif and verismo somersets book provides the tools to push vernacularity studies to a higher level, to the kind of serious scholarship the topic still needs in his book, he draws on one novel or film to illuminate each article of the apostles creed. The figure was found through looking at a number of books text stats, until brave new worlds 64,531 word count landed in the exact center of all books50% of books have fewer words and 50% of books have more words. A list of the 100 most offensive slang words on the online slang dictionary. Based on this list compiled by nicole humphrey cook. We thought you might find it interesting to also see some more facts and figures about the bibles 66 different books. The 25 most challenging books you will ever read if youve made it all the way through any of these, give yourself a pat on the back. Rowlings recordbreaking series began with two titles on the high end of that spectrum and finished with five that left the guidelines in the dust. The 100 most vulgar slang words the online slang dictionary.
The longest book written in our system of words is henry dargers the story of the vivian girls, a fantasy novel manuscript typed singlespaced with 15,145 pages in 10 volumes. All the words below were present 10 or more times in a. The actual word count for the hunger games is 99,750 and my utility calculates 94,743 words. A manuscript, typically of papyrus or parchment, that has been written on more than once, with the earlier writing incompletely erased and often legible. Once youve mastered the shorter vocabulary lists, this is the next step. It is a large hardback book over a4 in size, and the gold lettering and eye catching charm of goldfinches on the. At times the readers of books may be interested in discovering how many words they read. The remaining 10% youll be able to learn from context, or ask questions about. I use amazons data feeds to come up with the calculation.
Word count for famous novels, in ascending order by number of words. Hallo, pooh, youre just in time for a little smackerel of something. It would take time to learn the entire list from scratch, but you are probably already familiar with some of these words. Through the paint could be seen a pale palimpsest of advertisements f. Writer james chapman created a list of the most read books in the world based on the number of copies each book sold over the last 50 years he found. The harry potter books are young adult titles, and ya publishers generally look for manuscripts in the 50,000 to 80,000 word range. Obviously, my point is not that you should submit a first book of anywhere near. Like a general fiction novel, a good target word count for a memoir is 80,000 words. Choose the right categories and keywords for your book. Listed here, according to the 100millionword british national corpus, are the 100 most commonly used words in english. At a writers conference i recently attended, publishing veteran jane friedman said 80,000 words is good for most fiction, below 60,000 isnt novel length territory, and above 120,000 is likely too much. It contains the most important and most frequently used german words.
Lewis the lion, the witch, and the wardrobe, roald dahls charlie and the chocolate factory. It also explains how english is interrelated with other languages in the world and why so many of. A huge list of power words you can use, bookmark, and reference again and again. The most commonly used words are relatively simple constructions think the or a, while more infrequent words, those that might be used to convey specific concepts, have structural similarities. It transcends age barriers inspiring children and moving adults with its wide appeal. World bookchildcraft international and a great selection of related books, art and collectibles available now at. A story that is over 40,000 words is generally considered a novel. Proust produced the first volume of his volume masterpiece in 1912 it was first published in 19. Harry potter and the halfblood prince 168,000 words. Excluding the 26second intro spoken by an unknown vocalist and an indeterminate number of words rapped by eminem in the intros background likely to be 22, all included in the total of 1,560, slim shady actually raps 1,460 words in 5 min 38 sec 4. Bonus points if you actually understood what you were reading. The lost words is a book of spells that seeks to conjure back the nearlost magic and strangeness of the nature that surrounds us. Generally, 50,000 would be considered the minimum word count, and ideally a novel should be over 70,000 words.
Since highfrequency words, or sight words, are essential to fluent reading, and since many are not decodable in english, repeated exposure and memorization are crucial. The book is the handbook for lovers for it contains an essay on what makes words beautiful so that the reader may go beyond the book in beautifying his or her speech. The first alone has sold more than 120 million copies, and the rest have sold at least 65 million each. That said, if your book is around 40,000 words, youre in good company. These are basic learning books that creatively teach colors, numbers or simple, fun stories for bedtime. Trinity is almost correct, but you asked for the book with the most words, and the yongle dadian is not written in words, it is written in characters. There are several methods for determining the word count of a given book. The 100 most beautiful words in english just english. The greek language is the richest language in the world by far with 5 million words and 70 million word types according to the 1990 guinness book of records, while the english language has only 490.
For more information on plot points, take a look at my book plot perfect. For average word counts based on genre, see this handy reference. I once asked a magician what he considered to be the defining characteristic of his art. Ralph waldo emerson, american author wherever they burn books they will also, in the end, burn human beings. Heinrich heine, german poet books, the children of the brain. This is a list of the novels over 500,000 words published through a mainstream publisher. A good book is the best of friends, the same today and forever. What are some interesting words you have found in books. Inciting incident, plot point 1, midpoint, plot point 2, denouement. The longest is the order of the phoenix with a word count of 257,000 words. Here are the most commonly used words in the book titles voted on in the readers poll.
Your guide to book word counts fiction and nonfiction. How to find out the number of words in a book pen and. Palacios heartwarming and thoughtprovoking bestseller. In our village, folks say god crumbles up the old moon into stars. Write out your basic storyline in major plot points only. The longest novel is artamene ou le grand cyrus, originally published 164954 in ten parts, each part in three volumes. Most young adult novels fall between 55,000 and 70,000 words. Unfortunately, they dont offer word count so ive created an algorithm based on the number of pages, genre, and the dimensions of the book.