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Tokyo Ghoul in Japanese

東京喰種 トーキョーグール 12 episodes · 2014

Its 12 episodes have 11,239 words, 2,778 of them different, and 57% of those appear only once.

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Tokyo Ghoul

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

Words to learn

Learning Tokyo Ghoul's own most frequent words first, this many cover each share of its dialogue. The bar under each is out of all 2,778 different words.

  1. 50%of the dialogue 146words
  2. 80%of the dialogue 858words
  3. 90%of the dialogue 1,655words
  4. 95%of the dialogue 2,217words
  5. 98%of the dialogue 2,554words

Words and whole lines

A line needs every one of its words, so whole lines lag behind words. With 858 words you know 80% of what is said, but to know every word of the lines, a quarter need 197, half need 775, and three quarters need 2,161.

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 775 words

Dialogue coveredLines with every word known

Episode by episode

Episode 1 uses 510 different words. From episode 7 on, an episode brings about 168 that no earlier episode used. Each panel is to the same scale.

  1. 1 Episode 1: 510 new words of 510
  2. 2 Episode 2: 325 new words of 503
  3. 3 Episode 3: 371 new words of 629
  4. 4 Episode 4: 260 new words of 527
  5. 5 Episode 5: 162 new words of 440
  6. 6 Episode 6: 143 new words of 394
  7. 7 Episode 7: 228 new words of 518
  8. 8 Episode 8: 89 new words of 315
  9. 9 Episode 9: 226 new words of 582
  10. 10 Episode 10: 179 new words of 531
  11. 11 Episode 11: 179 new words of 455
  12. 12 Episode 12: 106 new words of 371

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. 14% of lines could not be fully analyzed and are left out of the whole-line figures. How these numbers are counted