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How hard is Harry Potter e a Pedra Filosofal to read?
Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone
By J.K. Rowling · In Portuguese
- Words for 95% of the text
- 8,836
- Sentence length
- 10.9 words
- Words beyond the 5,000 most common
- 75 per 1,000
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In Portuguese, Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone sits at the beginner level of our library, in Lia Wyler's Brazilian translation, the one these numbers describe. This children's fantasy keeps its sentences short and gives a large share of the text to dialogue, so the prose itself puts up little resistance; the work is in the vocabulary, which reaches past everyday Portuguese because the story lives in a school for wizards, with its brooms, owls, cauldrons, potions and spells, plus the translator's own coinages for the wizards' sport and for people without magic, which you will meet nowhere else. Readers who know the story in another language fill those words in quickly, and the speech verbs that carry the dialogue, such as exclaim, murmur and whisper, repeat often enough to stick.
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
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
- 8,836
- Sentence length
- 10.9 words
- One sentence in ten runs past 22 words
- Length
- Novella
- 80,913 words · ~3-8 hours
- Words beyond the 5,000 most common
- 75 per 1,000
- Dialogue
- 45%
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 | 60.4% |
| 250 | 69.0% |
| 500 | 75.0% |
| 1,000 | 80.7% |
| 2,000 | 86.4% |
| 3,000 | 89.4% |
| 5,000 | 92.5% |
| 7,500 | 94.3% |
| 10,000 | 95.4% |
| 15,000 | 96.9% |
| 20,000 | 97.8% |
| 30,000 | 98.6% |
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.
- bruxo×85
- vassoura×68
- depressa×61
- trasgo×44
- feitiço×43
- corujar×42
- exclamar×40
- espiar×38
- sapo×38
- murmurar×33
- poção×27
- unicórnio×26
- veste×26
- coruja×25
- sacudir×25
- vassourar×25
- caldeirão×24
- cochichar×23
- balaço×22
- cicatriz×22