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How long it takes to read
About 2 h 13 min at 250 words a minute, or 3 h 34 min as an audiobook.
| Reading speed | Whole book | At 30 minutes a day |
|---|---|---|
| Careful200 words a minute | 2 h 46 min | 6 days |
| Average250 words a minute | 2 h 13 min | 5 days |
| Fast300 words a minute | 1 h 51 min | 4 days |
Undine
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Counted from the text
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- Words in the text
- 33,179
- Chapters
- 10about 3,318 words each
- Dialogue
- 36%of the words are inside quotation marks
- Average sentence
- 26 words
- Vocabulary
- 452 different words in every 1,000Distinct words in the sampled text; this does not measure writing quality.
Where the numbers come from
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The word count is Musael’s own count of the Project Gutenberg text, which can include a preface or notes.
Checked on 2026-10-27. Page counts change from edition to edition.
Questions
How many words is Undine?
Undine by Friedrich Heinrich Karl Freiherr de La Motte-Fouqué and Charlotte M. Yonge has 33,179 words.
How long does it take to read Undine?
About 2 h 13 min at 250 words a minute, or 3 h 34 min as an audiobook.
How many days to read Undine at 30 minutes a day?
About 5 days at an average reading speed.
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