L. Frank Baum

How many words is Ozma of Oz?

Ozma of Oz by L. Frank Baum has 38,076 words.

38,076words

Pages
246mass market, Del Rey, 1979
Reading time
2 h 32 minat 250 words a minute
Listening time
4 h 6 minaudiobook pace, 155 words a minute
First published
1907

Book 3 of 14 in Oz

  1. 1The Wonderful Wizard of Oz40,508
  2. 2The Marvelous Land of Oz41,108
  3. 3Ozma of Oz38,076
  4. 4Dorothy and the Wizard in Oz40,875
  5. 5The Road to Oz38,406
  6. 6The Emerald City of Oz53,208
  7. 7The Patchwork Girl of Oz49,473
  8. 8Tik-Tok of Oz46,569
  9. 9The Scarecrow of Oz45,246
  10. 10Rinkitink in Oz47,574
  11. 11The Lost Princess of Oz46,355
  12. 12The Tin Woodman of Oz43,735
  13. 13The Magic of Oz39,114
  14. 14Glinda of Oz38,799

All of Oz: 609,046 words

Compared with other books

Longer than 5% 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
39,496
Dialogue
39%of the words are inside quotation marks
Average sentence
16.1 words
Vocabulary
416 different words in every 1,000higher means a more varied vocabulary

Read it free on Project Gutenberg

Where the numbers come from

The word count comes from the sources below. Sources give 38,076 to 38,487 words.

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

Questions

How many words is Ozma of Oz?

Ozma of Oz by L. Frank Baum has 38,076 words.

How many pages is Ozma of Oz?

246 pages in the mass market, Del Rey, 1979 edition. Other editions have more or fewer pages for the same text.

How long does it take to read Ozma of Oz?

About 2 h 32 min at 250 words a minute, or 4 h 6 min as an audiobook.

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