Create a free account to learn as you read
Create a free account to learn as you read
How hard is Le Comte de Monte-Cristo - Tome 1 to read?
The Count of Monte Cristo
By Alexandre Dumas · In French
- Words for 95% of the text
- 7,133
- Sentence length
- 19.5 words
- Words beyond the 5,000 most common
- 67 per 1,000
It is in our free library: open it and read it with a tap-to-translate dictionary.
This first part of Dumas's serialized adventure novel is intermediate reading in French. Sentences run a little long, but about half the text is dialogue, which keeps the pace brisk. The vocabulary is mostly common, though the nineteenth-century setting brings sea, prison and legal terms such as armateur, geôlier and cachot. It suits readers who already handle everyday French and want a famous story to push them further.
MnemoRead measured this book from its full text: how many of the language's most common words you need to follow it, and how long its sentences are.
How hard this book is
Easier than 76% of our French books
The score rises with the words needed to cover 95% of the text and with sentence length. It is the same in every language. Books within about ten points of each other read about as hard.
- Words for 95% of the text
- 7,133
- Sentence length
- 19.5 words
- One sentence in ten runs past 43 words
- Length
- Novel
- 131,376 words · 8+ hours
- Words beyond the 5,000 most common
- 67 per 1,000
- Dialogue
- 50%
Vocabulary needed
Share of the text covered by the most common words of the language.
Names of people and places count as known words.
Show the numbers
| Most common words | Share of the text |
|---|---|
| 100 | 63.9% |
| 250 | 71.0% |
| 500 | 76.1% |
| 1,000 | 81.7% |
| 2,000 | 87.0% |
| 3,000 | 90.0% |
| 5,000 | 93.3% |
| 7,500 | 95.1% |
| 10,000 | 96.4% |
| 15,000 | 97.7% |
| 20,000 | 98.5% |
| 30,000 | 99.3% |
CEFR word lists
Share of the text each level's words cover, with the levels below it. The book's vocabulary is rated at the first level to reach 95%.
Words to learn first
The words this book uses most that are not among the 5,000 most common of the language, with how often each appears.
- écrier×103
- geôlier×76
- vieillard×76
- armateur×72
- fût×62
- murmurer×59
- matelot×57
- cachot×52
- barque×51
- songer×39
- muraille×36
- substitut×32
- bonapartiste×30
- souriant×29
- pâle×28
- catalan×27
- riant×26
- usurpateur×25
- élancer×25
- contrebandier×24
Books at the same level in our library
Free to read, with the closest scores to this one.