Is Dracula hard to read? Its reading level from A1 to C2
How many words in every 100 you will probably not know, at each level from A1 to C2. Estimated over the whole book with Solaread’s own word-difficulty model.
- Author
- Bram Stoker
- First published
- 1897
- Length
- About 157,000 words
- Copyright
- Public domain
Short answer
Just right from B2: 4.9 new words in every 100. At B1 it is a little hard, 7.8 in 100. It is the third easiest of the 20 English classics we measured.
New words per 100, by level
Estimated over all 156,845 running words. Character names are left out. The labels follow Solaread’s difficulty scale: Easy means knowing 98 of every 100 words, Just right 95, A little hard 90, and below that Too hard.
Dracula vocabulary by level
At A2
- dear223×
- shall427×
- count200×
- diary107×
- madam94×
- whilst101×
- seem380×
- lay121×
- begin160×
- to-night78×
- till135×
- professor174×
The 12 words an A2 reader is most likely to stop at in this book, with how often each appears. Together they are about 4% of the new words at this level.
At B1
- madam94×
- to-night78×
- diary107×
- to-day47×
- evidently50×
- lest38×
- attendant38×
- pause56×
- to-morrow34×
- howl34×
- moonlight33×
- churchyard30×
The 12 words a B1 reader is most likely to stop at in this book, with how often each appears. Together they are about 4% of the new words at this level.
At B2
- to-night78×
- madam94×
- to-day47×
- to-morrow34×
- howl34×
- churchyard30×
- evidently50×
- lest38×
- nay30×
- attendant38×
- crucifix20×
- telegram30×
The 12 words a B2 reader is most likely to stop at in this book, with how often each appears. Together they are about 5% of the new words at this level.
The opening lines
3 May. Bistritz.—Left Munich at 8:35 P. M., on 1st May, arriving at Vienna early next morning; should have arrived at 6:46, but train was an hour late. Buda-Pesth seems a wonderful place, from the glimpse which I got of it from the train and the little I could walk through the streets. I feared to go very far from the station, as we had arrived late and would start as near the correct time as possible. The impression I had was that we were leaving the West and entering the East; the most western of splendid bridges over the Danube, which is here of noble width and depth, took us among the traditions of Turkish rule.
Open the free EPUB in Solaread and the words it marks follow your own level, with glosses in the language you choose.
Books with a similar level
- Alice in Wonderland7.1 new words per 100 at B1
- The Secret Garden8.3 at B1
- The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes8.5 at B1
Questions
Is Dracula hard to read?
At B1 it is a little hard, with 7.8 new words in every 100 (about one in 13). It is just right from B2.
What is the reading level of Dracula?
On Solaread’s scale it is just right from B2, and the third easiest of the 20 English classics we measured. At B2, 4.9 in every 100 words are new.
Where can I get Dracula for free?
It is in the public domain. Project Gutenberg has a free EPUB you can import into Solaread.
Read it with help only where you need it
Import the free EPUB. Solaread marks the words you probably don’t know, at your level.