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How hard is キッチン to read?
Kitchen
By 吉本ばなな · In Japanese
- Words for 95% of the text
- 7,704
- Sentence length
- 13.0 words
- Words beyond the 5,000 most common
- 67 per 1,000
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Kitchen is an intermediate read in Japanese. Its sentences are short, a quarter of the text is dialogue, and the prose is plain, domestic and modern, so it rarely stalls you on structure. The vocabulary is wider than the length suggests: it reads as the second-highest JLPT level, and a number of soft, descriptive words (adverbs of mood and light, gestures such as nodding and turning around) come back often, so it suits a learner comfortable with everyday fiction.
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 96% 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
- 7,704
- Sentence length
- 13.0 words
- One sentence in ten runs past 26 words
- Length
- Novella
- 44,882 words · ~3-8 hours
- Words beyond the 5,000 most common
- 67 per 1,000
- Dialogue
- 25%
- Kanji among the characters
- 24%
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 | 64.9% |
| 250 | 73.0% |
| 500 | 78.5% |
| 1,000 | 83.3% |
| 2,000 | 88.2% |
| 3,000 | 90.6% |
| 5,000 | 93.3% |
| 7,500 | 94.8% |
| 10,000 | 96.0% |
| 15,000 | 97.5% |
| 20,000 | 98.2% |
| 30,000 | 99.2% |
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.
- 台所×44
- 瞳×27
- 祖母×27
- ぼんやり×24
- 夜明け×20
- 不意×19
- しんと×16
- カツ丼×16
- 振り向く×15
- 微笑む×14
- 鈴×14
- セーラー×11
- 微か×11
- 水筒×11
- 淡々×11
- 頷く×11
- 澄む×10
- 眠り×10
- 覚める×10
- テニス×9
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