How many words is The Wonderful Wizard of Oz?

Book 1 of 14 in Oz

1. 1The Wonderful Wizard of Oz40,508
2. 2The Marvelous Land of Oz41,108
3. 3Ozma of Oz38,076
4. 4Dorothy and the Wizard in Oz40,875
5. 5The Road to Oz38,406
6. 6The Emerald City of Oz53,208
7. 7The Patchwork Girl of Oz49,473
8. 8Tik-Tok of Oz46,569
9. 9The Scarecrow of Oz45,246
10. 10Rinkitink in Oz47,574
11. 11The Lost Princess of Oz46,355
12. 12The Tin Woodman of Oz43,735
13. 13The Magic of Oz39,114
14. 14Glinda of Oz38,799

All of Oz: 609,046 words

Compared with other books

Longer than 8% of the other 366 books here.

• The Last HeroTerry Pratchett39,807 words
• The Ersatz ElevatorLemony Snicket39,933 words
• The Penultimate PerilLemony Snicket40,557 words
• EdgedancerBrandon Sanderson40,660 words

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

39,680

Chapters

24about 1,653 words each

Dialogue

38%of the words are inside quotation marks

Average sentence

17.6 words

Vocabulary

363 different words in every 1,000higher means a more varied vocabulary

Read it free on Project Gutenberg

Where the numbers come from

The word count comes from the sources below. Sources give 38,815 to 40,508 words.

• arbookfind.comword count
• standardebooks.orgword count
• github.comword count
• content.schoolinsites.comword count
• penguin.co.ukpages of this edition · ISBN 9780241734261

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

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