Jane Austen

How many words is Pride and Prejudice?

Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen has 121,970 words.

121,970words

Pages
307paperback, Macmillan Popular Classics, 2018
Reading time
8 h 8 minat 250 words a minute
Listening time
13 h 7 minaudiobook pace, 155 words a minute
First published
1813

Compared with other books

Longer than 60% 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
122,317
Chapters
61about 2,005 words each
Dialogue
46%of the words are inside quotation marks
Average sentence
17.5 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

Two or more sources agree on the word count. Sources give 121,342 to 122,356 words.

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

Questions

How many words is Pride and Prejudice?

Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen has 121,970 words.

How many pages is Pride and Prejudice?

307 pages in the paperback, Macmillan Popular Classics, 2018 edition. Other editions have more or fewer pages for the same text.

How long does it take to read Pride and Prejudice?

About 8 h 8 min at 250 words a minute, or 13 h 7 min as an audiobook.

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