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Cowboy Bebop in Japanese

カウボーイビバップ 26 episodes · 1998

Its 26 episodes have 21,702 words, 4,612 of them different, and 55% of those appear only once.

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Cowboy Bebop

75%of its words are among the 2,000 most common

Words to learn

Learning Cowboy Bebop's own most frequent words first, this many cover each share of its dialogue. The bar under each is out of all 4,612 different words.

  1. 50%of the dialogue 178words
  2. 80%of the dialogue 1,227words
  3. 90%of the dialogue 2,442words
  4. 95%of the dialogue 3,527words
  5. 98%of the dialogue 4,178words

Words and whole lines

A line needs every one of its words, so whole lines lag behind words. With 1,227 words you know 80% of what is said, but to know every word of the lines, a quarter need 128, half need 896, and three quarters need 3,249.

Words learned, most frequent first
0% 25% 50% 75% 100% 0 1,000 2,000 3,000 4,000 5,000 words learned Half the lines fully known after 896 words

Dialogue coveredLines with every word known

Episode by episode

Episode 1 uses 390 different words. From episode 14 on, an episode brings about 138 that no earlier episode used. Each panel is to the same scale.

  1. 1 Episode 1: 390 new words of 390
  2. 2 Episode 2: 332 new words of 464
  3. 3 Episode 3: 267 new words of 437
  4. 4 Episode 4: 319 new words of 529
  5. 5 Episode 5: 174 new words of 368
  6. 6 Episode 6: 143 new words of 336
  7. 7 Episode 7: 218 new words of 457
  8. 8 Episode 8: 183 new words of 477
  9. 9 Episode 9: 258 new words of 549
  10. 10 Episode 10: 141 new words of 387
  11. 11 Episode 11: 128 new words of 382
  12. 12 Episode 12: 174 new words of 492
  13. 13 Episode 13: 85 new words of 351
  14. 14 Episode 14: 244 new words of 596
  15. 15 Episode 15: 188 new words of 516
  16. 16 Episode 16: 120 new words of 426
  17. 17 Episode 17: 121 new words of 430
  18. 18 Episode 18: 154 new words of 511
  19. 19 Episode 19: 196 new words of 532
  20. 20 Episode 20: 69 new words of 294
  21. 21 Episode 21: 155 new words of 499
  22. 22 Episode 22: 154 new words of 522
  23. 23 Episode 23: 194 new words of 576
  24. 24 Episode 24: 63 new words of 338
  25. 25 Episode 25: 94 new words of 411
  26. 26 Episode 26: 48 new words of 267

Words no earlier episode used (the number)Words already seen

Similar difficulty

Counted automatically from the Japanese subtitles of all 26 episodes, leaving out character names. Vocabulary only: speaking speed and slang are not measured. 13% of lines could not be fully analyzed and are left out of the whole-line figures. How these numbers are counted