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Varied you can get many sizes but most usual in 44 inches.

OR: The length of a Fencing sword varies, and depends on your age and size.

It also depending on a sword type. Katana is about 40 inches, rapier 40-44 inches, longsword 42-50 inches , one handed medieval sword: 32-39 inches, duelling sabres 37-40 inches. These meassurements are approximate and depending on your own size.

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The short answer is "there isn't one." It's never been set in stone that, for example, a 17" blade is a dagger while an 18" one is a short sword. Most often, it's left to the smith who forged it to describe it; if the smith is replicating an existing design, he'll probably use the terminology already applied to it. Oakeshott typology--a modification of the earlier Petersen typology of the Viking sword--doesn't define a standard minimum length for any of the swords it categorizes.

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A common longsword is designed so that the blade does not reach past the wielders ankle. So the average length would be the distance from the palm of a man/woman of average height to their ankle.

As for swords in general: they vary far too greatly to tell us an average length for any non-arbitrary meaning.

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There were no standard lengths of swords in the Middle Ages. In fact there really were no fixed standard units of measure; the foot varied in length depending on who was king.

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