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How hard is Les Fleurs du mal to read?
The Flowers of Evil
By Charles Baudelaire · In French
- Words for 95% of the text
- 18,790
- Form
- Verse
- Words beyond the 5,000 most common
- 156 per 1,000
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This is an advanced book to read in French, even though its sentences are short. It is a collection of verse, and a very large vocabulary is needed to cover most of the text, with many words beyond the commonest ones, such as gloomy, funereal or abyss-related terms, and poetic spellings like encor. Dialogue is rare. It suits readers who already read French comfortably and want to take on classic poetry slowly.
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
Harder than 99% 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.
In verse: its sentence length depends on how the edition sets the lines, so the score reads the vocabulary alone.
- Words for 95% of the text
- 18,790
- Form
- Verse
- Length
- Novella
- 40,316 words · ~3-8 hours
- Words beyond the 5,000 most common
- 156 per 1,000
- Dialogue
- 9%
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 | 54.8% |
| 250 | 59.4% |
| 500 | 64.5% |
| 1,000 | 69.2% |
| 2,000 | 75.5% |
| 3,000 | 79.5% |
| 5,000 | 84.4% |
| 7,500 | 88.3% |
| 10,000 | 90.7% |
| 15,000 | 93.6% |
| 20,000 | 95.4% |
| 30,000 | 97.3% |
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.
- Ă´Ă—129
- volupté×33
- gouffreĂ—25
- pleurĂ—24
- ténèbres×24
- pâle×22
- cœurs×19
- funèbre×19
- remordsĂ—19
- tombeauĂ—19
- contemplerĂ—18
- amerĂ—17
- encorĂ—17
- flotĂ—17
- ténébreux×17
- clarté×16
- poisonĂ—16
- abîme×15
- singulierĂ—15
- enivrerĂ—14
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