# The Gay Cockade

The Gay Cockade by Temple Bailey has 84,875 words.

## At a glance

- **Author:** [Temple Bailey](https://musael.com/books/authors/temple-bailey.md) (1869–1953)
- **Genre:** romance
- **Readers:** adult

## How long it takes to read

- **Words:** 84,875
- **Reading time:** 5 h 40 min (at 250 words a minute)
- **Listening time:** 9 h 8 min (audiobook pace, 155 words a minute)

| Reading speed | Whole book | At 30 minutes a day |
| --- | --- | --- |
| 200 wpm | 7 h 4 min | 15 days |
| 250 wpm | 5 h 40 min | 12 days |
| 300 wpm | 4 h 43 min | 10 days |

## Read or listen

The Gay Cockade is in the public domain: these editions are free to download, read and share.

- Project Gutenberg: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/16433

## Counted from the text

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

- Words in the text: 84,875
- Dialogue: 30% of the words are inside quotation marks
- Average sentence: 12.4 words

## Where the numbers come from

The word count comes from the sources below.

- https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/16433 (word count)
- https://openlibrary.org/works/OL8719982W
- https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/16433

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

Source: https://musael.com/books/the-gay-cockade