28,448words
- Pages
- 107paperback, Vintage, 2015
- Reading time
- 1 h 54 minat 250 words a minute
- Listening time
- 3 h 4 minaudiobook pace, 155 words a minute
- First published
- 1843
Compared with other books
Longer than 2% of the other 366 books here.
Counted from the text
Musael counted the Project Gutenberg text of this book. It can include a preface or notes, so the total can differ a little from the figure above.
- Words in the text
- 29,412
- Chapters
- 5about 5,882 words each
- Average sentence
- 18.7 words
- Vocabulary
- 430 different words in every 1,000higher means a more varied vocabulary
Where the numbers come from
The word count comes from the sources below. Sources give 28,448 to 28,626 words.
- arbookfind.comword count
- standardebooks.orgword count
- chaptify.netword count
- openlibrary.orgpages of this edition · ISBN 9780099599852
Checked on 2026-10-27. Page counts change from edition to edition.
Questions
How many words is A Christmas Carol?
A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens has 28,448 words.
How many pages is A Christmas Carol?
107 pages in the paperback, Vintage, 2015 edition. Other editions have more or fewer pages for the same text.
How long does it take to read A Christmas Carol?
About 1 h 54 min at 250 words a minute, or 3 h 4 min as an audiobook.
Writing a book of your own?
Musael counts every chapter as you write, keeps the plan beside the draft and checks names and facts across the book.