Heidi

At a glance

Author

Johanna Spyri1827–1901

Genre

Children fiction

Readers

Middle grade

Length

Standard40,000 to 80,000 words

Readers' rating

3.9 out of 5from 211 ratings on Hardcover

How long it takes to read

About 3 h 21 min at 250 words a minute, or 5 h 24 min as an audiobook.

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Counted from the text

Automated estimates from the selected Project Gutenberg text; it may include a preface or notes.

Words in the text

66,736

Chapters

23about 2,902 words each

Dialogue

33%of the words are inside quotation marks

Average sentence

20.2 words

Vocabulary

385 different words in every 1,000Distinct words in the sampled text; this does not measure writing quality.

Where the numbers come from

The word count comes from the sources below.

• standardebooks.orgword count
• gutenberg.orgword count
• openlibrary.orgcover and record
• hardcover.appreaders' rating

The word count is Standard Ebooks’ count of its edition; the figures under “Counted from the text” are Musael’s own count of the Project Gutenberg text.

Checked on 2026-10-27. Page counts change from edition to edition. Cover from Open Library; the edition shown may differ.

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