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Death Note in Japanese

DEATH NOTE DEATH NOTE 37 episodes · 2006

Its 37 episodes have 43,383 words, 4,911 of them different, and 44% of those appear only once.

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DEATH NOTE

78%of its words are among the 2,000 most common

Words to learn

Learning Death Note's own most frequent words first, this many cover each share of its dialogue. The bar under each is out of all 4,911 different words.

  1. 50%of the dialogue 131words
  2. 80%of the dialogue 814words
  3. 90%of the dialogue 1,740words
  4. 95%of the dialogue 2,742words
  5. 98%of the dialogue 4,044words

Words and whole lines

A line needs every one of its words, so whole lines lag behind words. With 814 words you know 80% of what is said, but to know every word of the lines, a quarter need 217, half need 1,037, and three quarters need 3,753.

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 1,037 words

Dialogue coveredLines with every word known

Episode by episode

Episode 1 uses 539 different words. From episode 19 on, an episode brings about 73 that no earlier episode used. Each panel is to the same scale.

  1. 1 Episode 1: 539 new words of 539
  2. 2 Episode 2: 431 new words of 650
  3. 3 Episode 3: 278 new words of 574
  4. 4 Episode 4: 255 new words of 570
  5. 5 Episode 5: 197 new words of 535
  6. 6 Episode 6: 168 new words of 542
  7. 7 Episode 7: 170 new words of 539
  8. 8 Episode 8: 218 new words of 602
  9. 9 Episode 9: 152 new words of 552
  10. 10 Episode 10: 155 new words of 577
  11. 11 Episode 11: 155 new words of 570
  12. 12 Episode 12: 98 new words of 506
  13. 13 Episode 13: 124 new words of 517
  14. 14 Episode 14: 118 new words of 546
  15. 15 Episode 15: 117 new words of 488
  16. 16 Episode 16: 98 new words of 509
  17. 17 Episode 17: 111 new words of 574
  18. 18 Episode 18: 135 new words of 570
  19. 19 Episode 19: 101 new words of 517
  20. 20 Episode 20: 117 new words of 604
  21. 21 Episode 21: 93 new words of 539
  22. 22 Episode 22: 113 new words of 574
  23. 23 Episode 23: 80 new words of 498
  24. 24 Episode 24: 47 new words of 444
  25. 25 Episode 25: 62 new words of 335
  26. 26 Episode 26: 45 new words of 529
  27. 27 Episode 27: 62 new words of 496
  28. 28 Episode 28: 86 new words of 483
  29. 29 Episode 29: 42 new words of 400
  30. 30 Episode 30: 72 new words of 489
  31. 31 Episode 31: 69 new words of 530
  32. 32 Episode 32: 99 new words of 537
  33. 33 Episode 33: 103 new words of 538
  34. 34 Episode 34: 67 new words of 499
  35. 35 Episode 35: 46 new words of 390
  36. 36 Episode 36: 49 new words of 412
  37. 37 Episode 37: 39 new words of 312

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

Similar difficulty

Counted automatically from the Japanese subtitles of all 37 episodes, leaving out character names. Vocabulary only: speaking speed and slang are not measured. 9% of lines could not be fully analyzed and are left out of the whole-line figures. How these numbers are counted