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How hard is Cien años de soledad to read?
One Hundred Years of Solitude
By Gabriel Garcia Marquez · In Spanish
- Words for 95% of the text
- 13,148
- Sentence length
- 24.7 words
- Words beyond the 5,000 most common
- 106 per 1,000
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In Spanish, García Márquez's chronicle of the Buendía family and the town of Macondo is an advanced read in our library. An omniscient narrator tells nearly everything, so dialogue is scarce and the long, flowing sentences carry a large vocabulary drawn from the Caribbean coast and its history (gypsies, calves, hammocks, firing squads, the banana company) that recurs often enough to be learnt as you go. Add several generations of characters who share the same few first names, and it suits a reader who has already finished a long novel such as Niebla or one of Baroja's.
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 56% of our Spanish 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
- 13,148
- Sentence length
- 24.7 words
- One sentence in ten runs past 47 words
- Length
- Novel
- 138,166 words · 8+ hours
- Words beyond the 5,000 most common
- 106 per 1,000
- Dialogue
- 6%
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 | 60.1% |
| 250 | 67.4% |
| 500 | 72.1% |
| 1,000 | 77.1% |
| 2,000 | 82.6% |
| 3,000 | 85.8% |
| 5,000 | 89.4% |
| 7,500 | 92.0% |
| 10,000 | 93.5% |
| 15,000 | 95.6% |
| 20,000 | 96.8% |
| 30,000 | 98.0% |
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.
- gitano×63
- ternero×59
- fusilar×46
- bananero×38
- pergamino×38
- baúl×37
- ciénaga×34
- castaño×32
- forastero×31
- hamaca×31
- nostalgia×31
- atormentar×27
- fusilamiento×26
- siesta×26
- baraja×25
- mariposa×25
- vientre×25
- muchedumbre×24
- pelotón×24
- bisabuelo×23
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