Nov 11, 2008 the unofficial harry potter vocabulary builder. Harry potter and the philosophers stone 1997 harry. How many words are in each harry potter book answers. We scraped the text from the first 4books and merged it together. A quick check of the percy jackson series revealed the novels all staying around 89k per book, for a very rough total of 450,000 words. Find the match, dottodot, word search, maze, color by number and so many more inside. The entire harry potter series tips the scale at over a 1 million words, perhaps one of the only mgya series to do so. Please help the harry potter wiki by adding notes andor references to bring this article to a higher standard of quality. As i gave my copies away, i i thought id get myself some nice hardback copies. The first, harry potter and the philosophers stone harry potter and the sorcerers stone in the us, was published by bloomsbury on 26 june 1997 and the second, harry potter and the chamber of. The only statistic i have on harry potter is that order of the phoenix is about 257,000 words. The harry potter books are popular, and once someone reads the first book in the series, they often end up reading the entire series. The first step is downloading all the harry potter books and preprocessing the text. Below is a list of mistakes that occur in the harry potter book series, such as plot holes and typos.
Order of the phoenix is 14 of the total, just a tad short of the first three books word counts combined. Feb 28, 2016 old copies of harry potter novels may have sentimental value for the owners, but they could also be worth a mint. Dobby appears in five of the books but only appeared in two of the films. Below is the order of all of the harry potter books, as well as recommendations for other books like harry potter. How many words are in harry potter and the deathly hallows. A joke shop at number ninetythree diagon alley, opened by fred and george weasley during harrys sixth year at hogwarts.
Rowling filled the books with intentional writing choices. In favorite theaters in theaters near you in theaters with online ticketing. The novels chronicle the lives of a young wizard, harry potter, and his friends hermione granger and ron weasley, all of whom are students at hogwarts school of witchcraft and wizardry. The word counts of each hp book harrypotter reddit.
The use of the libraries online resources is still increasing every day, with harry potter and the philosophers stone. Harry is of course the young wizard featured in numerous incredibly famous books written by author jk rowling. How many words per chapter are in a harry potter novel. Harry potter and the deathly hallows 198,227 words. Wordcounter will help to make sure its word count reaches a specific requirement or stays within a certain limit. Feb 20, 2017 the harry potter series both books and movies are packed with emotional speeches and moving dialogue. Then we wrote a short piece of code to remove unnecessary text like the page numbers from the merged text. Harry potter and the prisoner of azkaban is the third book in the harry potter series. The books have also launched the infamous movie series. Famous book series and novel word counts number of words.
It was published worldwide in english on 21 june 2003. Also, heres another list i may swipe and add in here. For some perspective, harry potter and the sorcerers stone was around 78,000 words in its entirety. The harry potter movies in chronological order by date of release. Word counts of the most popular books in the world foster grant uk. Learn the 3, 000 hardest words from all seven books and enjoy the series more van young, sayre on. The main story arc concerns harry s struggle against lord voldemort, a dark wizard who intends to become immortal, overthrow the. The first book, harry potter and the sorcerers stone, has 76,944 words. Twenty years ago, readers around the world first discovered the magical story of harry potter, created by j.
List of chapter titles and respective inuniverse time of occurrence in the harry potter book. Word count for famous novels, in ascending order by number of words. Thousands of words make up harry potter and the goblet of fire, the fourth book in j. However, i understand that the length of twilight is unusually long for a debut novel. List of chapters in the harry potter novels harry potter. Learn the definitions of all of the wizarding words in the harry potter books with this glossary of common words. A statistical analysis of robert jordans the wheel of. If you didnt go to school at hogwarts, beauxbatons or durmstrang, you may not know every wizarding word you hear in the harry potter movies or read in the hp books many kind fellowfans have taken the time to put together lists of words that wizards use to help out the muggles who love harry potter.
On his eleventh birthday, orphan harry potter learns the shocking truth. More to the point, any class requiring students to read the series before registering is setting a million word pointofentry. No the films are exactly the same in the books some of the words are different so that they can be understood in whatever country they are published for example. Harry potter text analysis becoming a data analyst medium. Harry potter and the chamber of secrets i thought you were going to buy me a present.
Harry potter and the sorcerers stone has 17 chapters with titles, and about 4560 words per chapter. I said i would buy you a racing broom, said his father, drumming his fingers on the counter. What are the harry potter books page numbers answers. Th e first book harry potter and the sorcerers stone has 76,944 words. Rowling created an entire vocabulary to separate the wizarding world from the muggle world. Harry potter and the prisoner of azkaban 107,253 words. And harry potter and the deathly hallows sold over 15 million copies worldwide. Jan 31, 2018 while the entire harry potter series contains countless memorable quotes, perhaps some of the most bittersweet and nostalgic words of wisdom can be found by reading the first and last lines of each book. Harry potter is a series of fantasy novels written by british author j.
The harry potter world is divided into the magical and the mundane, and j. The word muggle has spread beyond its harry potter origins, becoming one of few pop culture words to land in the oxford english dictionary. How many words are there in the harry potter book series. There are 190,637 words in harry potter and the goblet. As each edition uses different font styles, the number wouldnt be the same for each copy of the book. The number of unique words also increases with the series. Harry potter and the philosophers stone 223 harry potter. Harry potter and the philosophers stone 76,944 words harry potter and the chamber of secrets 85,141 words harry potter and the prisoner of azkaban 107,253 words. Read all game of thrones books online for free, read with your mobile, tablet or desktop.
We can now reveal that, since that moment, half a billion harry potter books have now been sold. Plenty of wonderful, memorable descriptions and phrases make us laugh, cry, and terrify us about harry s next trial in facing lord voldemort. New website shows harry potter is still very dangerous. This number more than quadruples the firstday sales statistics of phoenixs predecessor, harry potter and the goblet of fire, which held the previous record with 372,775 copies sold its first day. Rowling, the creator of the harry potter books, has launched a new internet hub for young children on her wizarding world website promoting her books and merchandise. Cover the art for the cover of the original uk edition depicts harry at platform nine and threequarters wearing a gryffindor scarf, however, harry hasnt been sorted yet. Harry potter has been called the greatest childrens book series ever to have been printed. As harry potter daniel radcliffe begins his sixth year at hogwarts, he discovers an old book marked as the property of the halfblood prince and begins to learn. Harry potter and the sorcerers stone is about 77,500 words total. There are 76,944 words in harry potter and the sorcerers stone. How many words are there in a harry potter book word count in famous books. On average, this means one in fifteen people in the world owns a harry potter book. Harry potter word count the sorcerers stone 77,741 the chamber of secrets 85,735 the prisoner of azkaban 108,888 the goblet of fire 191,836 the order of the phoenix 261,906 the half blood prince 173,106 the deathly hallows 200,302. Dobby hoped if harry potter thought his friends had forgotten him harry potter might not want to go back to school, sir harry wasnt listening.
Harry potter and the halfblood prince was published on 16 july 2005. A history of magic exhibition at home harry potter and the philosophers stone wins winner of winners blue peter book award for 2020. Place the harry potter books in order according to your favourite score a books total score is based on multiple factors, including the number of people who have voted for it and how highly those voters ranked the book. It has fewer words than the other six books, making it the shortest book in the series. Harry potter has had his story translated into more than 60 languages, and is the best selling book series of all time. True harry potter fans know the books hold a special magic about them that the movies will just never capture. He made a grab for the letters, but dobby jumped out of reach. It hasnt yet been 20 years sinceharry potter and the. Rowling declared that harry is done following the release of the. Take a look inside the new illustrated edition of harry potter and the sorcerers stone designed by minalima explore the wonders of the harry potter. What isnt often considered is the sheer number of words a person who reads the entire series consumes.
There are 85,141 words in harry potter and the chamber of secrets. What are some words to describe the harry potter books. In hp 1 there are 5687 unique words compared to 12624 unique words in hp 5, so. How many words are there in all harry potter books. How many words are there in total in all 7 harry potter. There are 76,944 words in harry potter and the philosophers stone. Harry potter and the philosophers stone 76,944 words. A stronger version of this spell, lumos maxima is performed by harry potter at the dursleys house in the film adaptation of harry potter and the prisoner of azkaban, and by both harry and dumbledore in the crystal cave in the film adaptation of harry potter and the halfblood prince. In this article, were going to look at how many words are in the harry potter series. When combined, the total harry potter word count is over a million words. Here are the number of words in the harry potter novels and comparisons with the word counts of other wellknown works. The series combines a sense of wonder, adventure, and magic that matures with its audience, against a backdrop of one of the greatest stories of good and evil ever told.
Which only goes to show that the best of us must sometimes eat our words. Feb 16, 2019 the words used in the harry potter books and movies are playable in a new version of scrabbleand they can even earn you bonus points. Harry potter and the chamber of secretspage 2 ebook. Her name also goes back to ancient rome, where it appears in the aeneid to describe a woman warrior. The first and last thing dobby ever said to harry was, harry potter. Here are 11 words that even ordinary muggles have adopted into. Twilight has 24 titled chapters, or 26 if you count the preface and epilogue, and about 4580 words per chapter.
Its a noun the dursleys are muggles and can be used attributively as in the muggle world, above. Nov 15, 2019 love, hate, or feel meh about harry potter, its hard to argue that j. Harry potter and the order of the phoenix 257,045 words. Whats the good of that if im not on the house team. How many pages are there in all the harry potter books. I like to think the books matured and got longer as we aged with harry. I have purchased and read all harry potter books when they first came out many years ago and loved them. Title pages uk edition harry potter and the philosophers stone 223 pages harry potter and the chamber of secrets 251 pages harry potter and the prisoner of azkaban 317 pages harry potter and the goblet of fire 636 pages harry potter.
Oct 18, 2015 depending on the variant that youre reading i believe that the page numbers differ between countries so im using the copies that i have to hand. Words counts of bestselling novels better novel project. Jun 09, 2017 halfblood prince sold a recordbreaking 11 million copies on the first day of its release in 2005. Progressive word count in harry potter series the writer. Albus dumbledore, harry potter and the chamber of secrets. Train a gpt2 transformer to write harry potter books. Harry potter and the chamber of secrets has 85,141 words.
The german publisher of the harry potter books, carlsen verlag, filed a cease and desist against the fan translators. While the entire harry potter series contains countless memorable quotes, perhaps some of the most bittersweet and nostalgic words of wisdom can be found by reading the first and last lines of each book. Here are 30 great quotes that are true standouts to me. This chapter wordcount data becomes more interesting when we facet the information by book. Harry potter and the philosophers stone 76,944 harry potter and the chamber of secrets 85,141 harry potter and the prisoner of azkaban 107,253 harry potter and the goblet of fire 190,637 harry potter and the order of the phoenix 257,045. Title pages uk edition harry potter and the philosophers stone 223 pages harry potter and the chamber of secrets 251 pages harry potter and the prisoner of azkaban 317 pages harry potter and the goblet of fire 636 pages harry potter and the. Harry potter and the chamber of secrets 85,141 words. The hunger games has 27 untitled chapters, and about 3700 words per chapter. Some of these mistakes were fixed in later editions of the same book. Word counts of famous book series harry potter by jk rowling. Harry potter and the order of the phoenix is the longest book in the series, at 766 pages in the uk version and 870 pages in the us version. Approximately 198,227 word number varies depending on edition.
Harry potter and the prisoner of azkaban wikipedia. Harry potter and the chamber of secrets published in u. The total number of words for the harry potter series is over 1 million words. A vocabulary list featuring harry potter and the sorcerers stone by j. The latin word bellatrix is the feminine form of the latin word bellator, which means warrior. Here are the number of pages in the harry potter books listed. Your indispensable morning factoid and invaluable followon information. In the film they expanded this line, but still making harry potter the last words said. The harry potter series gained worldwide popularity, and all seven books in the series ranked on international bestseller list across the planet. Word counts of the most popular books in the world.
Harry potter and the sorcerers stone published in u. It is possible, however, that the illustration is of. Aug 21, 2017 5 harry potter swear words you might have missed. For example, if an author has to write a minimum or maximum amount of words for an article, essay, report, story, book, paper, you name it. Actually order of the phoenix is the thickest, at least in my set, by a substantial amount. There are quite a lot of words in the harry potter books. Word count for famous novels organized commonplace book.
Dumbledore, hippogriff, and 11 more real words from. Harry potter casts a spell over the capitals ereaders. The word count of a book is measured overall, rather than per page. Harry potter and the goblet of fire has 190,637 words. Harry potter, ron and hermione return to hogwarts school of witchcraft and wizardry for their third year of study, where they delve into the mystery surrounding an escaped prisoner who poses a dangerous threat to the young wizard. We are also going to look at how harry potter is comparable to other young adult novels in regards to word count. Mistakes in the harry potter books harry potter wiki fandom. Well, this section on mugglenet will explain all the intricacies associated with the rare harry potter books, from the first editions to the misprints and covers associated with each. From made up words to the meanings of names to the wellscripted first and last lines of each novel, rowling wanted to the writing to match the intricate fantasy world she created for the nowiconic boy wizard.
The number of pages also doesnt help much, as publishers use different. Based on this list compiled by nicole humphrey cook. From the first line of the sorcerers stone to the last line of the deathly hallows, even slytherins will have all the feels. Jun 26, 2017 rowlings wellresearched inventiveness has put her in the same illustrious group. Number of words of the harry potter series by book. They begin with harry learning that he is, in fact, a. Harry potter harry potter glossary harry potter books. There are seven books in the harry potter series, each continuing on from where the previous book ended. Harry potter and the halfblood prince 168,923 words.
Jul 12, 2007 here are the number of pages in the harry potter books listed. Harry potter and the philosophers stone 76944 harry potter and the chamber of secrets 85141 harry potter and the prisoner of azkaban 107253 harry. These harry potter books hardback box set version are not worth purchasing. The eight harry potter books have an impressive combined word count of over 1 million words. The harry potter movies in chronological order by date of. Harry potter will have them, sir, if he gives dobby his word that he will not return to hogwarts. A huge basilisk a talking snake, basically used to live in it, which harry potter killed at the send of the second movie. Over three times the lenght of the book that made her bones for her.
There are 107,253 words in harry potter and the prisoner of azkaban. The third book harry potter and the prisoner of azkaban has 107,253 words. For average word counts based on genre, see this handy reference. Dumbledore, hippogriff, and 11 more real words from harry. The word count figures for the other six books, in order. Downloading harry potter books and preprocessing the text. New harry potter scrabble accepts wizarding words like. Jul 29, 2008 each chapter has a different number of words. Word counts of philip pullmans his dark materials series.
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