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New writers tend to assume that a chapter must be a certain set length in order to maintain the average novel length of around 80,000 â 95,000 words, but in truth, chapters can be as long or as short as you need them to be. There is no formula.
If the word count of Twilight is disregarded, the average becomes around 88,625. 1  Harry Potter and The Sorcererâs Stone has 17 chapters with titles, and about 4560 words per chapter.  Twilight has 24 titled chapters, or 26 if you count the Preface and Epilogue, and about 4580 words per chapter.