Food · #888 biggest of 1,014
How big is an egg?
5.8 cm
An egg measures 5.8 cm. That's about 2.42 coins lined up end to end.
By the numbers
- That's 5.8 cm, or about 2.28 inches.
- You'd need about 29 of them stacked up to reach the height of an average adult.
- Roughly 829 human-hair widths could line up across it.
- Out of all 1,014 things in this collection, it ranks #888 by size.
Size comparison
How egg stacks up against things of a similar size. Tap any bar to explore it.
nail
6.0 cm
amethyst point
6.0 cm
yo-yo
6.0 cm
egg cup
6.0 cm
egg
5.8 cm
billiard ball
5.7 cm
bee hummingbird
5.7 cm
Rubik's cube
5.7 cm
shrimp
5.0 cm
Bars use a logarithmic scale so everything fits — real differences are even more extreme!
Fun fact
You could line up roughly 29 of them along the height of an average person.
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