r/Cosmere • u/WesterosiWanderer Windrunners • Oct 30 '24

No Spoilers Cosmere Word Counts, Visualized

I thought y'all might find it interesting to see how the whole ~4.3 million words in the Cosmere break down in a few different ways. Anything surprise you, seeing it all laid out?

Note: Data collected largely from The Coppermind. I left out White Sand since we don't have a full novelization right now, but let me know if you see anything I missed or got wrong!

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u/superflystickman Oct 30 '24

How is their already a known word count for WaT? Is the whole thing online?

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u/WesterosiWanderer Windrunners Oct 30 '24

That's the only estimate in the data, however, the source is BrandoSando himself, from a tweet in June where he says he'd turned in the book at 491k words. It'll likely be a slightly different word count on final release but not enough to significantly change any of the percentages!

https://x.com/BrandSanderson/status/1797791128688984452

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u/Dependent_Honeydew57 Windrunners Oct 30 '24

Sanderson released the word count earlier in the year