Green Eggs and Ham contains just fifty words.
Doctor Seuss' publisher, Bennett Cerf bet him fifty dollars he could
not write a book using just fifty words. Cerf lost. Forty nine of
the fifty words are one syllable words.
The U.S. Constitution has 4,543 words, including signatures. Abraham
Lincoln’s Gettysburg Address contained 271 words. The US Tax Code
has about 3,800,000 words, but is constantly being updated.