A. A. Milne

How many words is Winnie-the-Pooh?

Winnie-the-Pooh by A. A. Milne has 22,671 words.

22,671words

Pages
176hardcover, Dutton Juvenile, 2001
Reading time
1 h 31 minat 250 words a minute
Listening time
2 h 26 minaudiobook pace, 155 words a minute
First published
1926

Book 1 of 2 in Winnie-the-Pooh

  1. 1Winnie-the-Pooh22,671
  2. 2The House at Pooh Corner25,361

All of Winnie-the-Pooh: 48,032 words

Compared with other books

Longer than 1% 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
23,008
Chapters
10about 2,301 words each
Dialogue
39%of the words are inside quotation marks
Average sentence
11.3 words
Vocabulary
332 different words in every 1,000higher means a more varied vocabulary

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Where the numbers come from

The word count comes from the sources below. Sources give 21,469 to 22,671 words.

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

Questions

How many words is Winnie-the-Pooh?

Winnie-the-Pooh by A. A. Milne has 22,671 words.

How many pages is Winnie-the-Pooh?

176 pages in the hardcover, Dutton Juvenile, 2001 edition. Other editions have more or fewer pages for the same text.

How long does it take to read Winnie-the-Pooh?

About 1 h 31 min at 250 words a minute, or 2 h 26 min as an audiobook.

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