Emily Brontë

How many words is Wuthering Heights?

Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë has 107,945 words.

107,945words

Pages
313paperback, Macmillan Popular Classics, 2018
Reading time
7 h 12 minat 250 words a minute
Listening time
11 h 36 minaudiobook pace, 155 words a minute
First published
1847

Compared with other books

Longer than 54% 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
116,515
Chapters
34about 3,427 words each
Dialogue
47%of the words are inside quotation marks
Average sentence
16.1 words
Vocabulary
482 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 107,945 to 116,508 words.

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

Questions

How many words is Wuthering Heights?

Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë has 107,945 words.

How many pages is Wuthering Heights?

313 pages in the paperback, Macmillan Popular Classics, 2018 edition. Other editions have more or fewer pages for the same text.

How long does it take to read Wuthering Heights?

About 7 h 12 min at 250 words a minute, or 11 h 36 min as an audiobook.

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