How to tell the length of an x86 instruction?

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There’s no hard and fast rule for x86 without a database as the instruction encoding is pretty complex (and the opcode itself can vary from 1 to 3 bytes). You can consult the Intel® 64 and IA-32 Architectures Software Developer’s Manual 2A document (Chapter 2: Instruction Format) to see how instructions and their operands are encoded:

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