390,883words
- Pages
- 1,056paperback, Penguin Classics, 2003
- Reading time
- 26 h 4 minat 250 words a minute
- Listening time
- 42 h 2 minaudiobook pace, 155 words a minute
- First published
- 1605
Compared with other books
Longer than 95% 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
- 427,968
- Chapters
- 38about 11,262 words each
- Dialogue
- 54%of the words are inside quotation marks
- Vocabulary
- 411 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 390,883 to 424,431 words.
- arbookfind.comword count
- standardebooks.orgword count
- chaptify.netword count
- penguin.co.ukpages of this edition · ISBN 9780140449099
Checked on 2026-10-27. Page counts change from edition to edition.
Questions
How many words is Don Quixote?
Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes has 390,883 words.
How many pages is Don Quixote?
1,056 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 Don Quixote?
About 26 h 4 min at 250 words a minute, or 42 h 2 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.