Explore Movie Vocabulary
Learn English with movies. Discover how much of a movie’s vocabulary you already know and review unfamiliar words before watching.
Driving Miss Daisy
Unique vocabulary and phrases by level
How difficult is Driving Miss Daisy in English?
Driving Miss Daisy: 63.8% A1–A2 vocabulary; 12.3% B2, C1, and rare vocabulary. Vocabulary size: 1,099.
Unique vocabulary
- For A2 learners: 19.9% of unique vocabulary is above A2 or marked rare. Preview recurring words and use English subtitles.
- For B1 learners: 12.3% of unique vocabulary is above B1 or marked rare. Preview recurring words and use English subtitles.
- For B2 learners: 8.9% of unique vocabulary is above B2 or marked rare. Try a short scene and check your comprehension; the vocabulary offers a relatively accessible starting point.
16.3% Unclassified. Unclassified vocabulary has no reliable level assignment.
Vocabulary weighted by word occurrences
89.4% A1–A2 vocabulary; 4.0% B2, C1, and rare vocabulary; 4.8% Unclassified.
This counts repeated eligible words. Phrases are excluded from this calculation to avoid counting their component words twice.
Recurring words and phrases to preview
- aii (rare): 52 occurrences in available subtitles.
Subtitle example:
Are you aII right, Miss Daisy?
- wiii (rare): 16 occurrences in available subtitles.
Subtitle example:
How wiII you stand her aII day? -They'II fix crab. AII that troubIe.
- lord (B1): 15 occurrences in available subtitles.
English meaning: A man with a noble title; also a religious title or an exclamation.
Subtitle example:
...if the sweet Lord Jesus came down and asked me HimseIf.
- caii (rare): 14 occurrences in available subtitles.
Subtitle example:
Why don't you caII your son? He'd send someone to carry you.
- oid (rare): 13 occurrences in available subtitles.
Subtitle example:
Hey, Oscar, Junior. How're you oId boys doing today?
Compare with titles in similar genres
- Joe Somebody: 12.3% B2, C1, and rare vocabulary (0.0 percentage points more than Driving Miss Daisy).
- Frances Ha: 12.3% B2, C1, and rare vocabulary (0.0 percentage points more than Driving Miss Daisy).
- In the Land of Women: 12.3% B2, C1, and rare vocabulary (0.0 percentage points more than Driving Miss Daisy).
These percentages describe vocabulary, not the proportion of dialogue you will understand. CEFR labels are estimates, not official film ratings. Accent, speed, songs, context, and your own vocabulary also affect comprehension. Repeated occurrences may include repeated dialogue or lyrics.
How we estimate vocabulary difficulty · Evidence generated: