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Black Butler in Japanese

黒執事 Kuroshitsuji 24 episodes · 2008

Its 24 episodes have 23,038 words, 5,217 of them different, and 54% of those appear only once.

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69%of its words are among the 2,000 most common

Words to learn

Learning Black Butler's own most frequent words first, this many cover each share of its dialogue. The bar under each is out of all 5,217 different words.

  1. 50%of the dialogue 253words
  2. 80%of the dialogue 1,517words
  3. 90%of the dialogue 2,914words
  4. 95%of the dialogue 4,066words
  5. 98%of the dialogue 4,757words

Words and whole lines

A line needs every one of its words, so whole lines lag behind words. With 1,517 words you know 80% of what is said, but to know every word of the lines, a quarter need 382, half need 1,555, and three quarters need 4,105.

Words learned, most frequent first
0% 25% 50% 75% 100% 0 1,000 2,000 3,000 4,000 5,000 6,000 words learned Half the lines fully known after 1,555 words

Dialogue coveredLines with every word known

Episode by episode

Episode 1 uses 579 different words. From episode 13 on, an episode brings about 156 that no earlier episode used. Each panel is to the same scale.

  1. 1 Episode 1: 579 new words of 579
  2. 2 Episode 2: 446 new words of 602
  3. 3 Episode 3: 332 new words of 549
  4. 4 Episode 4: 349 new words of 622
  5. 5 Episode 5: 288 new words of 574
  6. 6 Episode 6: 270 new words of 623
  7. 7 Episode 7: 214 new words of 487
  8. 8 Episode 8: 151 new words of 420
  9. 9 Episode 9: 174 new words of 450
  10. 10 Episode 10: 282 new words of 640
  11. 11 Episode 11: 149 new words of 428
  12. 12 Episode 12: 107 new words of 417
  13. 13 Episode 13: 252 new words of 670
  14. 14 Episode 14: 208 new words of 631
  15. 15 Episode 15: 211 new words of 580
  16. 16 Episode 16: 193 new words of 596
  17. 17 Episode 17: 159 new words of 524
  18. 18 Episode 18: 134 new words of 452
  19. 19 Episode 19: 200 new words of 645
  20. 20 Episode 20: 120 new words of 534
  21. 21 Episode 21: 77 new words of 420
  22. 22 Episode 22: 117 new words of 480
  23. 23 Episode 23: 84 new words of 455
  24. 24 Episode 24: 121 new words of 486

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

Similar difficulty

Counted automatically from the Japanese subtitles of all 24 episodes, leaving out character names. Vocabulary only: speaking speed and slang are not measured. 12% of lines could not be fully analyzed and are left out of the whole-line figures. How these numbers are counted