Writing Statistics Capitalization Guides

The average blog post is 1,333 words in 2025 – and shrinking for the first time in the AI era. What 912 million posts reveal about ideal blog length.

"Publicly" tops Oxford's 2-billion-word corpus of misspellings. See the full list, state-by-state Google data, and survey stats – every figure sourced.

The #1 grammar mistake is using the wrong word – 13.7% of all errors in a national study of 877 college papers. See the full top 20, ranked by real data.

Adults silently read non-fiction at 238 words per minute (Brysbaert, 2019). Full stats by age, grade, and medium – every figure with its primary source.

A novel officially starts at 40,000 words, but publishers expect 80,000–100,000. Verified word counts by genre, famous books, pages, and chapters.

A page holds ~500 words single-spaced or 250 double-spaced – but only under settings Word doesn't default to. Conversions, history, and printed-book data.

The average 20-year-old knows 42,000 lemmas, per a study of 221,268 people. Vocabulary by age, words per day, Shakespeare, and what fluency really takes.

Bestsellers average just under 400 pages – not the mythical 300. Measured data by genre, business books, audiobooks, picture books, and reading time.

The mean is 12.6 books a year, the median just 2–5, and a quarter read zero. Gallup, Pew, and YouGov data on who reads what – plus the CEO myth, debunked.