Mark Twain

How many words is Adventures of Huckleberry Finn?

Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain has 105,590 words.

105,590words

Pages
400paperback, Penguin Classics, 2003
Reading time
7 h 2 minat 250 words a minute
Listening time
11 h 21 minaudiobook pace, 155 words a minute
First published
1884

Compared with other books

Longer than 52% 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
112,151
Chapters
44about 2,549 words each
Dialogue
35%of the words are inside quotation marks
Average sentence
18.9 words
Vocabulary
374 different words in every 1,000higher means a more varied vocabulary

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Where the numbers come from

The word count comes from the sources below. Sources give 105,590 to 111,082 words.

Checked on 2026-10-27. Page counts change from edition to edition.

Questions

How many words is Adventures of Huckleberry Finn?

Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain has 105,590 words.

How many pages is Adventures of Huckleberry Finn?

400 pages in the paperback, Penguin Classics, 2003 edition. Other editions have more or fewer pages for the same text.

How long does it take to read Adventures of Huckleberry Finn?

About 7 h 2 min at 250 words a minute, or 11 h 21 min as an audiobook.

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