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Sword Art Online in Japanese

ソードアート・オンライン 24 of 25 episodes · 2012

The 24 of its 25 episodes in the library have 20,184 words, 4,115 of them different, and 53% of those appear only once.

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Sword Art Online

76%of its words are among the 2,000 most common

Words to learn

Learning Sword Art Online's own most frequent words first, this many cover each share of its dialogue. The bar under each is out of all 4,115 different words.

  1. 50%of the dialogue 183words
  2. 80%of the dialogue 1,101words
  3. 90%of the dialogue 2,097words
  4. 95%of the dialogue 3,106words
  5. 98%of the dialogue 3,712words

Words and whole lines

A line needs every one of its words, so whole lines lag behind words. With 1,101 words you know 80% of what is said, but to know every word of the lines, a quarter need 267, half need 1,101, and three quarters need 3,117.

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 1,101 words

Dialogue coveredLines with every word known

Episode by episode

Episode 1 uses 597 different words. From episode 13 on, an episode brings about 116 that no earlier episode used. Each panel is to the same scale.

  1. 1 Episode 1: 597 new words of 597
  2. 2 Episode 2: 261 new words of 405
  3. 3 Episode 3: 230 new words of 435
  4. 4 Episode 4: 256 new words of 501
  5. 5 Episode 5: 244 new words of 519
  6. 6 Episode 6: 224 new words of 536
  7. 7 Episode 7: 168 new words of 427
  8. 8 Episode 8: 152 new words of 439
  9. 9 Episode 9: 177 new words of 478
  10. 10 Episode 10: 100 new words of 388
  11. 11 Episode 11: 139 new words of 452
  12. 12 Episode 12: 180 new words of 489
  13. 13 Episode 13: 139 new words of 498
  14. 14 Episode 14: 87 new words of 352
  15. 15 Episode 15: 143 new words of 423
  16. 16 Episode 16: 141 new words of 454
  17. 17 Episode 17: 165 new words of 557
  18. 18 Episode 18: 115 new words of 502
  19. 19 Episode 19: 153 new words of 541
  20. 20 Episode 20: 147 new words of 506
  21. 21 Episode 21: 129 new words of 509
  22. 22 Episode 22: 34 new words of 257
  23. 23 Episode 23: 47 new words of 330
  24. 24 Episode 24: 87 new words of 412

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

Similar difficulty

Counted automatically from the Japanese subtitles of 24 of its 25 episodes, leaving out character names. Vocabulary only: speaking speed and slang are not measured. 15% of lines could not be fully analyzed and are left out of the whole-line figures. How these numbers are counted