Writing & Content

Readability Score

Flesch, Flesch-Kincaid, Gunning Fog, SMOG, ARI, Dale-Chall — with live writing feedback and paragraph-level callouts.

9.2
Reading grade9th grade
Fairly Difficult · 10-12th grade73 words6 sentences~1 min read
480 chars · 3 paragraphs
longpassivecomplex
Score gauges
live
51
Flesch
Reading ease — higher is easier
10.3
Gunning Fog
Years of education needed
10.5
SMOG
Polysyllable index
9.2
FK Grade
US school grade
Tone
Passive
Structure
Words
73
Sents
6
W/sent
12.2
Syllables
124
Syl/word
1.70
ARI
10.0
Suggestions
1Hard sentencesSplit those over 20 words.
1Passive voicePrefer the active voice.
2Adverbs (-ly)Cut weak modifiers.
10Complex wordsSwap for simpler ones.
Grade trend
Flesch-Kincaid per paragraph
max 22.3
7.9
22.3
0.0
¶1
normalworst 3
3
Worst offenders
Highest-grade paragraphs — rewrite candidates
  • 2 · 41 wordsgrade 22.3 · ease 8
    Longer sentences can drag down a reading ease score significantly because they increase the average words per sentence, and if those sentences are also packed with polysyllabic jargon — terminology, specificity, complexity — then the Gunning Fog and SMOG indices will climb accordingly.
  • 1 · 23 wordsgrade 7.9 · ease 59
    The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog. This is a sample paragraph intended to demonstrate how readability scoring works in practice.
  • 3 · 9 wordsgrade 0.0 · ease 100
    Shorter lines help. So does plain English. Use them.
Long sentences
1
  • Longer sentences can drag down a reading ease score significantly because they increase the average words per sentence, and if those sentences are also packed with polysyllabic jargon — terminology, specificity, complexity — then the Gunning Fog and SMOG indices will climb accordingly.
Complex words
10
paragraphdemonstratereadabilitysignificantlyaveragepolysyllabicterminologyspecificitycomplexityaccordingly
Passive voice
1
  • Longer sentences can drag down a reading ease score significantly because they increase the average words per sentence, and if those sentences are also packed with polysyllabic jargon — terminology, specificity, complexity — then the Gunning Fog and SMOG indices will climb accordingly.
Dale-Chall easy-word list: ~500-word sample baked in from the public-domain Dale & Chall list (1948/1995). Full 3,000-word list can be swapped for publishing-grade precision.

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