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How hard is Les Malheurs de Sophie to read?
Sophie's Misfortunes
By La Comtesse de Ségur · In French
- Words for 95% of the text
- 6,445
- Sentence length
- 14.8 words
- Words beyond the 5,000 most common
- 66 per 1,000
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This is a beginner book in French, relative to our library. It is a children's story about a little girl's blunders in a country house, so the sentences are of moderate length and the situations are everyday ones. The vocabulary leans on a nineteenth-century household and its animals (a doll, a donkey, a tortoise, a squirrel), and the narration uses the literary past tenses, so expect to look up a handful of words per page.
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 95% 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.
Set as a play: the speakers' names count as known words, and never as sentences of their own.
- Words for 95% of the text
- 6,445
- Sentence length
- 14.8 words
- One sentence in ten runs past 31 words
- Length
- Short
- 36,137 words · < 3 hours
- Words beyond the 5,000 most common
- 66 per 1,000
- Dialogue
- 18%
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 | 67.4% |
| 250 | 74.3% |
| 500 | 78.5% |
| 1,000 | 82.7% |
| 2,000 | 88.2% |
| 3,000 | 90.5% |
| 5,000 | 93.4% |
| 7,500 | 95.6% |
| 10,000 | 96.7% |
| 15,000 | 97.9% |
| 20,000 | 98.6% |
| 30,000 | 99.0% |
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.
- âne×110
- poupée×51
- tortue×45
- écureuil×41
- écrier×29
- minon×22
- épingle×22
- gronder×19
- mouchoir×19
- accourir×18
- confit×16
- enchanté×16
- riant×16
- soulier×16
- bouvreuil×15
- honteux×15
- sourcil×15
- écorché×15
- chaux×13
- consoler×13
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