I heard that Bava Basra is the longest masechta in blatt but Brochos is the longest mesechta in words. Did anyone else hear anything about that?
What most likely got this rumor started is that Brachos does have and lots of pages with minimal commentary. Brachos does in fact (according to my calculations) take the record for most Talmudic text per page.
words/daf letters/daf words letters daf mesechta
ברכות 63 273260 70254 4337.46 1115.14
כריתות 27 102234 26328 3786.44 975.11
הוריות 13 49035 12632 3771.92 971.69
מגילה 31 115271 28939 3718.42 933.52
סנהדרין 112 406013 104357 3625.12 931.76
תענית 30 106087 26691 3536.23 889.7
מועד_קטן 28 89722 22554 3204.36 805.5
סוטה 48 152615 39149 3179.48 815.6
ערכין 33 98096 24815 2972.61 751.97
מכות 23 67782 17608 2947.04 765.57
שבת 156 447232 113820 2866.87 729.62
קידושין 81 231631 59256 2859.64 731.56
חגיגה 26 73506 18533 2827.15 712.81
בבא_מציעא 118 330417 84375 2800.14 715.04
בבא_קמא 118 328313 83973 2782.31 711.64
עבודה_זרה 75 207188 51851 2762.51 691.35
תמורה 33 91112 23065 2760.97 698.94
נידה 72 197171 50118 2738.49 696.08
יבמות 121 330319 84486 2729.91 698.23
ראש_השנה 34 92621 23376 2724.15 687.53
פסחים 120 324521 82335 2704.34 686.13
גיטין 89 238946 60832 2684.79 683.51
בכורות 60 160117 40587 2668.62 676.45
שבועות 48 127686 32717 2660.13 681.6
מנחות 109 288694 73203 2648.57 671.59
כתובות 111 288903 73398 2602.73 661.24
יומא 87 225512 57180 2592.09 657.24
עירובין 104 264202 67238 2540.4 646.52
ביצה 39 97777 24918 2507.1 638.92
חולין 141 351691 89555 2494.26 635.14
סוכה 55 127774 32302 2323.16 587.31
זבחים 119 273681 69345 2299.84 582.73
תמיד 9 18449 4610 2049.89 512.22
בבא_בתרא 175 346249 89044 1978.57 508.82
נזיר 65 108571 27984 1670.32 430.52
מעילה 21 32255 8064 1535.95 384
נדרים 90 134935 34475 1499.28 383.06
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28Downloaded the texts from mechon mamre, and wrote a computer program to count everything. – Shalom Aug 27 '10 at 1:20
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3Thanks for doing some real empirical research, Shalom. If you want to obrain this info in a spreadsheet format, please see: tallitstore.com/v/vspfiles/util/word_counts_mesechta.xls If you want the output in a cleaner format, please see: tallitstore.com/v/vspfiles/util/word_counts_mesechta.htm – user1887 Sep 9 '12 at 20:48
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No, Shabbos is the longest.
See the comments here: Shelosha Veshishim - mi yodeya?
