# The Adventures of Pinocchio

The Adventures of Pinocchio by Carlo Collodi has 41,602 words.

## At a glance

1883 novel by Carlo Collodi.

- **Author:** [Carlo Collodi](https://musael.com/books/authors/carlo-collodi.md) (1826–1890)
- **First published:** 1883
- **Original language:** Italian
- **Genre:** children fiction
- **Readers:** middle grade

## How long it takes to read

- **Words:** 41,602
- **Reading time:** 2 h 46 min (at 250 words a minute)
- **Listening time:** 4 h 28 min (audiobook pace, 155 words a minute)

| Reading speed | Whole book | At 30 minutes a day |
| --- | --- | --- |
| 200 wpm | 3 h 28 min | 7 days |
| 250 wpm | 2 h 46 min | 6 days |
| 300 wpm | 2 h 19 min | 5 days |

## Read or listen

The Adventures of Pinocchio is in the public domain: these editions are free to download, read and share.

- Standard Ebooks: https://standardebooks.org/ebooks/carlo-collodi/the-adventures-of-pinocchio
- Project Gutenberg: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/500

## Counted from the text

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

- Words in the text: 39,879
- Chapters: 36
- Dialogue: 43% of the words are inside quotation marks
- Average sentence: 12.1 words

## Where the numbers come from

The word count comes from the sources below.

- https://standardebooks.org/ebooks/carlo-collodi/the-adventures-of-pinocchio (word count)
- https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/500 (word count)
- https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q8065468
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Adventures_of_Pinocchio
- https://openlibrary.org/works/OL24667985W
- https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/500

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

Source: https://musael.com/books/the-adventures-of-pinocchio