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Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone
By J.K. Rowling · In Japanese
- Words for 95% of the text
- 11,379
- Sentence length
- 13.0 words
- Words beyond the 5,000 most common
- 89 per 1,000
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In Japanese, Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone sits at the advanced level of our library, above all because of how many words it takes: as a full-length novel, it needs a large vocabulary. That vocabulary reads at the second-highest JLPT level, with much of it on no JLPT list, from the book's own coinages to the words of a school for wizards, such as brooms, cloaks, owls and houses; the sentences are of ordinary length, and readers who know the story will recognise the katakana names at a glance. Dialogue fills over a third of the text, and each character has a voice: Dumbledore's stylised old-man speech and Hagrid's rustic dialect take some getting used to.
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 87% of our Japanese 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
- 11,379
- Sentence length
- 13.0 words
- One sentence in ten runs past 25 words
- Length
- Novel
- 112,862 words · 8+ hours
- Words beyond the 5,000 most common
- 89 per 1,000
- Dialogue
- 37%
- Kanji among the characters
- 21%
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 | 64.1% |
| 250 | 71.2% |
| 500 | 76.4% |
| 1,000 | 80.6% |
| 2,000 | 85.8% |
| 3,000 | 88.4% |
| 5,000 | 91.1% |
| 7,500 | 93.1% |
| 10,000 | 94.3% |
| 15,000 | 96.1% |
| 20,000 | 97.1% |
| 30,000 | 98.2% |
JLPT word lists
Share of the text each level's words cover, with the levels below it. N5 and N4 are the textbook lists; N3 to N1 are the words common in the novels learners grade at that level. No list covers a whole novel: literary and rare words lie outside it. The book's vocabulary is rated at the first level that covers nearly all of what the whole list covers (98.5%).
JLPT kanji
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.
- 箒×101
- マント×77
- 梟×67
- 寮×66
- トロール×46
- 途端×43
- 連中×41
- 双子×40
- 包み×35
- マダム×33
- 広間×31
- 呟く×30
- 大声×29
- 指差す×28
- 一家×27
- チェス×25
- 囁く×25
- 物置×24
- 三十×23
- ゴースト×22
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