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The Promised Neverland in Japanese

約束のネバーランド Yakusoku no Neverland 12 episodes · 2019

Its 12 episodes have 10,012 words, 2,239 of them different, and 52% of those appear only once.

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Yakusoku no Neverland

79%of its words are among the 2,000 most common

Words to learn

Learning The Promised Neverland's own most frequent words first, this many cover each share of its dialogue. The bar under each is out of all 2,239 different words.

  1. 50%of the dialogue 142words
  2. 80%of the dialogue 669words
  3. 90%of the dialogue 1,238words
  4. 95%of the dialogue 1,739words
  5. 98%of the dialogue 2,039words

Words and whole lines

A line needs every one of its words, so whole lines lag behind words. With 669 words you know 80% of what is said, but to know every word of the lines, a quarter need 143, half need 585, and three quarters need 1,758.

Words learned, most frequent first
0% 25% 50% 75% 100% 0 1,000 2,000 3,000 words learned Half the lines fully known after 585 words

Dialogue coveredLines with every word known

Episode by episode

Episode 1 uses 404 different words. From episode 7 on, an episode brings about 110 that no earlier episode used. Each panel is to the same scale.

  1. 1 Episode 1: 404 new words of 404
  2. 2 Episode 2: 331 new words of 512
  3. 3 Episode 3: 287 new words of 541
  4. 4 Episode 4: 184 new words of 405
  5. 5 Episode 5: 230 new words of 507
  6. 6 Episode 6: 146 new words of 455
  7. 7 Episode 7: 161 new words of 437
  8. 8 Episode 8: 103 new words of 358
  9. 9 Episode 9: 123 new words of 399
  10. 10 Episode 10: 97 new words of 372
  11. 11 Episode 11: 109 new words of 432
  12. 12 Episode 12: 64 new words of 334

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

Similar difficulty

Counted automatically from the Japanese subtitles of all 12 episodes, leaving out character names. Vocabulary only: speaking speed and slang are not measured. 8% of lines could not be fully analyzed and are left out of the whole-line figures. How these numbers are counted