Franz Kafka

How many words is The Metamorphosis?

The Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka has 22,011 words.

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

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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.

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