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ポケットモンスター Pocket Monsters 276 episodes · 1997

Its 276 episodes have 277,048 words, 12,345 of them different, and 28% of those appear only once.

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Pocket Monsters

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

Words to learn

Learning Pokémon's own most frequent words first, this many cover each share of its dialogue. The bar under each is out of all 12,345 different words.

  1. 50%of the dialogue 225words
  2. 80%of the dialogue 1,319words
  3. 90%of the dialogue 2,903words
  4. 95%of the dialogue 4,974words
  5. 98%of the dialogue 7,855words

Words and whole lines

A line needs every one of its words, so whole lines lag behind words. With 1,319 words you know 80% of what is said, but to know every word of the lines, a quarter need 196, half need 1,061, and three quarters need 4,867.

Words learned, most frequent first
0% 25% 50% 75% 100% 0 1,000 2,000 3,000 4,000 5,000 6,000 7,000 8,000 9,000 10,000 11,000 12,000 13,000 words learned Half the lines fully known after 1,061 words

Dialogue coveredLines with every word known

Episode by episode

Episode 1 uses 553 different words. From episode 139 on, an episode brings about 8 that no earlier episode used. Each panel is to the same scale.

  1. 1 Episode 1: 553 new words of 553
  2. 2 Episode 2: 355 new words of 567
  3. 3 Episode 3: 257 new words of 510
  4. 4 Episode 4: 202 new words of 492
  5. 5 Episode 5: 213 new words of 500
  6. 6 Episode 6: 229 new words of 545
  7. 7 Episode 7: 248 new words of 603
  8. 8 Episode 8: 209 new words of 587
  9. 9 Episode 9: 255 new words of 638
  10. 10 Episode 10: 126 new words of 493
  11. 11 Episode 11: 130 new words of 487
  12. 12 Episode 12: 149 new words of 559
  13. 13 Episode 13: 117 new words of 471
  14. 14 Episode 14: 116 new words of 509
  15. 15 Episode 15: 115 new words of 522
  16. 16 Episode 16: 107 new words of 425
  17. 17 Episode 17: 166 new words of 556
  18. 18 Episode 18: 126 new words of 478
  19. 19 Episode 19: 126 new words of 578
  20. 20 Episode 20: 146 new words of 527
  21. 21 Episode 21: 110 new words of 535
  22. 22 Episode 22: 95 new words of 525
  23. 23 Episode 23: 88 new words of 484
  24. 24 Episode 24: 117 new words of 549
  25. 25 Episode 25: 108 new words of 502
  26. 26 Episode 26: 120 new words of 565
  27. 27 Episode 27: 112 new words of 543
  28. 28 Episode 28: 132 new words of 589
  29. 29 Episode 29: 99 new words of 576
  30. 30 Episode 30: 88 new words of 555
  31. 31 Episode 31: 135 new words of 562
  32. 32 Episode 32: 74 new words of 551
  33. 33 Episode 33: 135 new words of 616
  34. 34 Episode 34: 58 new words of 510
  35. 35 Episode 35: 74 new words of 562
  36. 36 Episode 36: 96 new words of 538
  37. 37 Episode 37: 79 new words of 548
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  39. 39 Episode 39: 61 new words of 486
  40. 40 Episode 40: 68 new words of 513
  41. 41 Episode 41: 84 new words of 548
  42. 42 Episode 42: 85 new words of 527
  43. 43 Episode 43: 59 new words of 481
  44. 44 Episode 44: 133 new words of 652
  45. 45 Episode 45: 93 new words of 550
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  47. 47 Episode 47: 119 new words of 622
  48. 48 Episode 48: 57 new words of 501
  49. 49 Episode 49: 52 new words of 479
  50. 50 Episode 50: 80 new words of 539
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  59. 59 Episode 59: 66 new words of 569
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  65. 65 Episode 65: 45 new words of 461
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  77. 77 Episode 77: 109 new words of 645
  78. 78 Episode 78: 42 new words of 547
  79. 79 Episode 79: 53 new words of 492
  80. 80 Episode 80: 59 new words of 553
  81. 81 Episode 81: 70 new words of 593
  82. 82 Episode 82: 50 new words of 529
  83. 83 Episode 83: 53 new words of 542
  84. 84 Episode 84: 101 new words of 641
  85. 85 Episode 85: 60 new words of 571
  86. 86 Episode 86: 43 new words of 523
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  88. 88 Episode 88: 53 new words of 555
  89. 89 Episode 89: 46 new words of 561
  90. 90 Episode 90: 35 new words of 484
  91. 91 Episode 91: 62 new words of 550
  92. 92 Episode 92: 41 new words of 485
  93. 93 Episode 93: 60 new words of 542
  94. 94 Episode 94: 39 new words of 504
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  96. 96 Episode 96: 58 new words of 566
  97. 97 Episode 97: 55 new words of 591
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  100. 100 Episode 100: 39 new words of 492
  101. 101 Episode 101: 52 new words of 586
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  103. 103 Episode 103: 72 new words of 606
  104. 104 Episode 104: 36 new words of 563
  105. 105 Episode 105: 73 new words of 687
  106. 106 Episode 106: 47 new words of 556
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  108. 108 Episode 108: 35 new words of 435
  109. 109 Episode 109: 42 new words of 537
  110. 110 Episode 110: 32 new words of 539
  111. 111 Episode 111: 57 new words of 566
  112. 112 Episode 112: 52 new words of 510
  113. 113 Episode 113: 55 new words of 639
  114. 114 Episode 114: 46 new words of 536
  115. 115 Episode 115: 56 new words of 620
  116. 116 Episode 116: 53 new words of 561
  117. 117 Episode 117: 40 new words of 536
  118. 118 Episode 118: 81 new words of 601
  119. 119 Episode 119: 47 new words of 510
  120. 120 Episode 120: 44 new words of 514
  121. 121 Episode 121: 66 new words of 556
  122. 122 Episode 122: 51 new words of 630
  123. 123 Episode 123: 29 new words of 506
  124. 124 Episode 124: 31 new words of 532
  125. 125 Episode 125: 47 new words of 598
  126. 126 Episode 126: 39 new words of 510
  127. 127 Episode 127: 45 new words of 545
  128. 128 Episode 128: 56 new words of 629
  129. 129 Episode 129: 35 new words of 528
  130. 130 Episode 130: 3 new words of 542
  131. 131 Episode 131: 50 new words of 593
  132. 132 Episode 132: 71 new words of 660
  133. 133 Episode 133: 29 new words of 507
  134. 134 Episode 134: 32 new words of 524
  135. 135 Episode 135: 26 new words of 508
  136. 136 Episode 136: 29 new words of 529
  137. 137 Episode 137: 38 new words of 574
  138. 138 Episode 138: 33 new words of 496
  139. 139 Episode 139: 43 new words of 593
  140. 140 Episode 140: 37 new words of 498
  141. 141 Episode 141: 17 new words of 461
  142. 142 Episode 142: 27 new words of 480
  143. 143 Episode 143: 23 new words of 497
  144. 144 Episode 144: 31 new words of 500
  145. 145 Episode 145: 25 new words of 487
  146. 146 Episode 146: 34 new words of 494
  147. 147 Episode 147: 27 new words of 477
  148. 148 Episode 148: 25 new words of 461
  149. 149 Episode 149: 18 new words of 505
  150. 150 Episode 150: 18 new words of 377
  151. 151 Episode 151: 53 new words of 524
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  170. 170 Episode 170: 3 new words of 372
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  184. 184 Episode 184: 4 new words of 372
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  186. 186 Episode 186: 0 new words of 308
  187. 187 Episode 187: 4 new words of 415
  188. 188 Episode 188: 3 new words of 385
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  191. 191 Episode 191: 2 new words of 372
  192. 192 Episode 192: 7 new words of 362
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  199. 199 Episode 199: 3 new words of 479
  200. 200 Episode 200: 4 new words of 391
  201. 201 Episode 201: 13 new words of 352
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  203. 203 Episode 203: 3 new words of 431
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  208. 208 Episode 208: 4 new words of 397
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  245. 245 Episode 245: 0 new words of 382
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  256. 256 Episode 256: 2 new words of 397
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  261. 261 Episode 261: 3 new words of 374
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  269. 269 Episode 269: 6 new words of 355
  270. 270 Episode 270: 0 new words of 312
  271. 271 Episode 271: 0 new words of 437
  272. 272 Episode 272: 1 new words of 373
  273. 273 Episode 273: 2 new words of 371
  274. 274 Episode 274: 2 new words of 384
  275. 275 Episode 275: 0 new words of 347
  276. 276 Episode 276: 2 new words of 362

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

Similar difficulty

Counted automatically from the Japanese subtitles of all 276 episodes, leaving out character names. Vocabulary only: speaking speed and slang are not measured. 27% of lines could not be fully analyzed and are left out of the whole-line figures. How these numbers are counted