45,246words
- Pages
- 267mass market, Del Rey, 1980
- Reading time
- 3 h 1 minat 250 words a minute
- Listening time
- 4 h 52 minaudiobook pace, 155 words a minute
- First published
- 1915
Book 9 of 14 in Oz
Compared with other books
Longer than 12% 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
- 45,742
- Chapters
- 24about 1,906 words each
- Dialogue
- 35%of the words are inside quotation marks
- Average sentence
- 17 words
- Vocabulary
- 416 different words in every 1,000higher means a more varied vocabulary
Where the numbers come from
The word count comes from the sources below.
- arbookfind.comword count
- abebooks.compages of this edition · ISBN 9780345282316
Checked on 2026-10-27. Page counts change from edition to edition.
Questions
How many words is The Scarecrow of Oz?
The Scarecrow of Oz by L. Frank Baum has 45,246 words.
How many pages is The Scarecrow of Oz?
267 pages in the mass market, Del Rey, 1980 edition. Other editions have more or fewer pages for the same text.
How long does it take to read The Scarecrow of Oz?
About 3 h 1 min at 250 words a minute, or 4 h 52 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.