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How hard is Le Dernier Jour d'un condamné to read?
The Last Day of a Condemned Man
By Victor Hugo · In French
- Words for 95% of the text
- 10,612
- Sentence length
- 13.9 words
- Words beyond the 5,000 most common
- 90 per 1,000
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This is an intermediate read in French. The sentences are fairly short and there is very little dialogue, since the book is the inner monologue of a prisoner awaiting execution, but the vocabulary is demanding: a large number of different words are needed to follow it. Much of that is the language of prisons, courts and the scaffold, plus nineteenth-century spellings and slang, so it suits readers who already handle literary French and are ready to look words up.
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 59% 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
- 10,612
- Sentence length
- 13.9 words
- One sentence in ten runs past 30 words
- Length
- Short
- 36,201 words · < 3 hours
- Words beyond the 5,000 most common
- 90 per 1,000
- Dialogue
- 11%
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 | 62.9% |
| 250 | 70.1% |
| 500 | 75.3% |
| 1,000 | 80.3% |
| 2,000 | 84.9% |
| 3,000 | 87.9% |
| 5,000 | 91.0% |
| 7,500 | 93.2% |
| 10,000 | 94.8% |
| 15,000 | 96.2% |
| 20,000 | 97.2% |
| 30,000 | 98.3% |
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.
- bourreau×39
- lirlonfa×26
- cachot×25
- charrette×25
- échafaud×25
- misérable×24
- forçat×20
- maluré×20
- guillotine×19
- hideux×19
- geôlier×15
- huissier×14
- pavé×14
- tantôt×14
- galérien×13
- guichetier×13
- malurette×13
- bagne×12
- abolir×11
- poëte×11
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