206,052words
- Pages
- 488paperback, Simon & Brown, 2011
- Reading time
- 13 h 44 minat 250 words a minute
- Listening time
- 22 h 9 minaudiobook pace, 155 words a minute
- First published
- 1851
Compared with other books
Longer than 82% 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
- 214,404
- Chapters
- 134about 1,600 words each
- Dialogue
- 22%of the words are inside quotation marks
- Average sentence
- 20.8 words
- Vocabulary
- 471 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 206,052 to 211,202 words.
- arbookfind.comword count
- standardebooks.orgword count
- chaptify.netword count
- openlibrary.orgpages of this edition · ISBN 9781613822241
Checked on 2026-10-27. Page counts change from edition to edition.
Questions
How many words is Moby-Dick?
Moby-Dick by Herman Melville has 206,052 words.
How many pages is Moby-Dick?
488 pages in the paperback, Simon & Brown, 2011 edition. Other editions have more or fewer pages for the same text.
How long does it take to read Moby-Dick?
About 13 h 44 min at 250 words a minute, or 22 h 9 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.