Bram Stoker

How many words is Dracula?

Dracula by Bram Stoker has 161,105 words.

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Pages
501hardcover, Harper Muse, an imprint of HarperCollins Focus, LLC, 2024
Reading time
10 h 44 minat 250 words a minute
Listening time
17 h 19 minaudiobook pace, 155 words a minute
First published
1897

Compared with other books

Longer than 71% 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
160,951
Chapters
27about 5,961 words each
Dialogue
36%of the words are inside quotation marks
Average sentence
18 words
Vocabulary
403 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 161,040 to 161,105 words.

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

Questions

How many words is Dracula?

Dracula by Bram Stoker has 161,105 words.

How many pages is Dracula?

501 pages in the hardcover, Harper Muse, an imprint of HarperCollins Focus, LLC, 2024 edition. Other editions have more or fewer pages for the same text.

How long does it take to read Dracula?

About 10 h 44 min at 250 words a minute, or 17 h 19 min as an audiobook.

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