22,011words
- Pages
- 128paperback, W. W. Norton & Company, 2014
- Reading time
- 1 h 28 minat 250 words a minute
- Listening time
- 2 h 22 minaudiobook pace, 155 words a minute
- First published
- 1915
Compared with other books
Longer than 0% 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
- 22,011
- Dialogue
- 11%of the words are inside quotation marks
- Average sentence
- 27.1 words
- Vocabulary
- 388 different words in every 1,000higher means a more varied vocabulary
Where the numbers come from
The word count comes from the sources below.
- chaptify.netword count
- datarepository.wolframcloud.comword count
- wwnorton.co.ukpages of this edition · ISBN 9780393347098
Checked on 2026-10-27. Page counts change from edition to edition.
Questions
How many words is The Metamorphosis?
The Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka has 22,011 words.
How many pages is The Metamorphosis?
128 pages in the paperback, W. W. Norton & Company, 2014 edition. Other editions have more or fewer pages for the same text.
How long does it take to read The Metamorphosis?
About 1 h 28 min at 250 words a minute, or 2 h 22 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.

