Readability Score Checker
Paste in a paragraph and get a Flesch reading ease score along with the rough US grade level it corresponds to.
Common questions
- What's a good score?
- For general web writing, 60 to 70 is usually the sweet spot, roughly the reading level of a typical newspaper article. Technical or academic writing naturally scores lower, and that's not automatically a problem if that's your actual audience.
- How is the score calculated?
- The standard Flesch reading ease formula, based on average sentence length and the average number of syllables per word.
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