Is Treasure Island 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
- Robert Louis Stevenson
- First published
- 1883
- Length
- About 66,900 words
- Copyright
- Public domain
Short answer
Just right only at C2: 3.2 new words in every 100. At B1 it is a little hard, 9.7 in 100. It is the tenth easiest of the 20 English classics we measured.
New words per 100, by level
Estimated over all 66,853 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.
Treasure Island vocabulary by level
At A2
- cry136×
- squire106×
- captain234×
- lay111×
- doctor173×
- rum56×
- begin108×
- ship134×
- treasure50×
- sail44×
- lad41×
- mate49×
The 12 words an A2 reader is most likely to stop at in this book, with how often each appears. Together they are about 6% of the new words at this level.
At B1
- squire106×
- rum56×
- stockade37×
- ashore37×
- seaman32×
- lad41×
- anchorage29×
- schooner28×
- sail44×
- mutineer25×
- coracle24×
- crutch24×
The 12 words a B1 reader is most likely to stop at in this book, with how often each appears. Together they are about 7% of the new words at this level.
At B2
- squire106×
- stockade37×
- rum56×
- seaman32×
- schooner28×
- mutineer25×
- ashore37×
- coracle24×
- crutch24×
- anchorage29×
- musket20×
- buccaneers16×
The 12 words a B2 reader is most likely to stop at in this book, with how often each appears. Together they are about 9% of the new words at this level.
The opening lines
Squire Trelawney, Dr. Livesey, and the rest of these gentlemen having asked me to write down the whole particulars about Treasure Island, from the beginning to the end, keeping nothing back but the bearings of the island, and that only because there is still treasure not yet lifted, I take up my pen in the year of grace 17—, and go back to the time when my father kept the Admiral Benbow inn and the brown old seaman with the sabre cut first took up his lodging under our roof.
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
- Anne of Green Gables9.5 new words per 100 at B1
- The Picture of Dorian Gray9.6 at B1
- The Great Gatsby9.7 at B1
Questions
Is Treasure Island hard to read?
At B1 it is a little hard, with 9.7 new words in every 100 (about one in 10). It is just right only at C2.
What is the reading level of Treasure Island?
On Solaread’s scale it is just right only at C2, and the tenth easiest of the 20 English classics we measured. At B2, 6.2 in every 100 words are new.
Where can I get Treasure Island 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.