Statistics on Clark Ashton Smith's Fiction
Boyd Pearson
- 28,648 unique words in the fiction of Clark Ashton Smith.
- 10,762 words used only once.
- 10 words occur more than 500 times.
- 9.4 the average number of times a word is used.
10 most popular words
Time 0.358% | 14.628% (958)
Light 0.258% | 10.536% (690)
Saw 0.256% |10.475% (686)
Long 0.255% | 10.399% (681)
Eyes 0.254% |10.017%(656)
World 0.226% | 9.223% (604)
Night 0.224% | 9.146% (599)
Little 0.221% | 9.024% (591)
Man 0.205% |8.368%(548)
Far 0.200% | 8.184% (536)
Excludes a list of 363 common words. First percentage is for all words second is of the top ten.
Observations on the above graph
- Long occurs 681 times and Short 84 times.
- Night occurs 599 times and Day 321 times.
- Man occurs 548 times and Woman 132 times.
- Far occurs 536 times and Near 151 times.
Word Length Distribution
1 0.27% (725)
2 0.58% (1549)
3 4.95% (13298)
4 16.84% (45203)
5 18.52% (49708)
6 17.32% (46484)
7 14.94% (40087)
8 10.8% (28996)
9 7.46% (20018)
10 4.13% (11093)
11 2.3% (6160)
12 1.09% (2931)
13 0.52% (1392)
14 0.19% (493)
15 0.06% (171)
16 0.02% (52)
17 0.01% (15)
18 0% (4)
19 0% (1)
From all CAS's fiction.
CAS's Short Stories Statisticss
- 2.7 Average sentences per paragraph
- 23.3 Average Words per sentence
- 4.6 Average characters per word
- 58.5 Flesch Reading Ease (Atlantic Monthly 57)
- 9.7 Kincaid Grade level
- 14.7 Flesch-Kincaid reading level. (A Tale of Two Cities 13)
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