The basic D&D pdf by the numbers
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| Total word count : | 47155 |
| Number of different words : | 7539 |
| Complexity factor (Lexical Density) : | 16% |
| Readability (Gunning-Fog Index) : (6-easy 20-hard) | 8.1 |
| Total number of characters : | 511777 |
| Number of characters without spaces : | 323615 |
| Average Syllables per Word : | 1.7 |
| Sentence count : | 5732 |
| Average sentence length (words) : | 15.09 |
| Max sentence length (words) : | 712 |
| Min sentence length (words) : | 1 |
| Readability (Alternative) beta : (100-easy 20-hard, optimal 60-70) | 48 |
Frequency and top words
| Word | Occurrences | Frequency | Rank |
| your | 1098 | 2.3% | 1 |
| spell | 593 | 1.3% | 2 |
| level | 492 | 1% | 3 |
| creature | 456 | 1% | 3 |
| ability | 289 | 0.6% | 4 |
| action | 288 | 0.6% | 4 |
| character | 280 | 0.6% | 4 |
| feet | 264 | 0.6% | 4 |
| attack | 262 | 0.6% | 4 |
| damage | 261 | 0.6% | 4 |
| range | 257 | 0.5% | 5 |
| might | 252 | 0.5% | 5 |
| target | 242 | 0.5% | 5 |
| spells | 226 | 0.5% | 5 |
| make | 223 | 0.5% | 5 |
| time | 222 | 0.5% | 5 |
| each | 219 | 0.5% | 5 |
| chapter | 216 | 0.5% | 5 |
| duration | 191 | 0.4% | 6 |
| rules | 185 | 0.4% | 6 |
Word Length
| Word Length (characters) | Word count | Frequency |
| 3 | 15600 | 17.7% |
| 2 | 13930 | 15.8% |
| 4 | 13737 | 15.6% |
| 5 | 10746 | 12.2% |
| 6 | 8659 | 9.8% |
| 7 | 6618 | 7.5% |
| 1 | 6101 | 6.9% |
| 8 | 4727 | 5.4% |
| 9 | 3484 | 4% |
| 10 | 2073 | 2.4% |
| 11 | 1235 | 1.4% |
| 12 | 651 | 0.7% |
| 13 | 459 | 0.5% |
| 14 | 55 | 0.1% |
| 15 | 50 | 0.1% |
| 16 | 15 | 0% |
| 17 | 12 | 0% |
| 19 | 6 | 0% |
| 18 | 4 | 0% |
| 23 | 2 | 0% |
| 22 | 1 | 0% |
| 20 | 1 | 0% |
| 28 | 1 | 0% |
Syllable count
| Syllable count | Word count | Frequency |
| 1 | 42263 | 53.7% |
| 2 | 22901 | 29.1% |
| 3 | 9409 | 12% |
| 4 | 3484 | 4.4% |
| 5 | 562 | 0.7% |
| 6 | 69 | 0.1% |
| 7 | 3 | 0% |
| 8 | 1 | 0% |
| 10 | 1 | 0% |