Readability Checker
Measure your text with seven readability formulas at once, including Flesch, Flesch-Kincaid, Gunning Fog, and SMOG, against a target audience.
How to use
- Paste your text into the box.
- Choose who will read it.
- Read the scores and the verdict.
A readability checker scores how easy a text is to read using published formulas. No single score is right for every audience, so the tool reports seven and compares them against the level you choose.
Paste or type your text.
Questions about readability checker
- Which score should I trust?
- Flesch Reading Ease for general audiences and Flesch-Kincaid for a school grade level are the two most widely used.
- Why do the scores disagree?
- Each formula weights syllables, word length, and sentence length differently, so a text can be easy on one scale and hard on another.
- Are these scores accurate for every language?
- The formulas were built on English and are only reliable for English text.
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