Readability score.

What it does. Scores your text with the Flesch reading-ease formula - 0 to 100, higher is easier - and shows the words-per-sentence and syllables-per-word behind the score.

How to use it. Paste a section and read the score with its grade band. General web writing sits comfortably around 60-70; if a piece lands far lower, look first at the longest sentences and the heaviest words.

Why it matters. The score is not a verdict on intelligence - it is a measure of friction. Matching friction to your audience is what clear actually means.

Your data. The tool runs entirely in your browser - text you paste never leaves the page, and nothing is uploaded to a server.

Good to know

Score paragraphs, not whole documents - a 900-word piece mixing an intro and a technical section averages two different audiences into one misleading number.

Where this fits

Analysis tools put numbers where a writer's blind spots live: the sentence you always write, the word you lean on, the reading level you drifted into. The number is never the verdict - it is the pointer. Read each flag in its sentence, keep what is deliberate, fix what is not.

Category neighbours: Word density calculator and Filler word finder

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