Paste any text to get its Flesch Reading Ease, Flesch-Kincaid Grade, Gunning Fog and SMOG scores — plus word, sentence and syllable counts — so you can write content everyone understands.
Measure how easy your content is to read and who it suits.
Add the article, email or page copy you want to check. A live word counter tracks your length.
The tool counts words, sentences and syllables, then calculates four industry-standard readability formulas.
A Flesch Reading Ease of 60–70 is plain English suited to most web readers. Higher is easier; lower is more complex.
Shorten long sentences and swap complex words for simpler ones, then analyze again to watch your scores improve.
Everything you need to know about the Readability Analyzer.
Flesch Reading Ease rates text on a 0–100 scale, where higher means easier to read. Scores of 60–70 are considered plain English suitable for most adults, 30–50 are fairly difficult, and below 30 are best understood by university graduates. It is one of the most widely used readability measures.
Paste your text into the box and click Analyze. The tool instantly shows your Flesch Reading Ease, Flesch-Kincaid Grade, Gunning Fog and SMOG scores, plus counts of words, sentences and syllables and an estimated reading time. Use the results to simplify anything that scores too high.
For general web content, aim for a Flesch Reading Ease around 60–70, roughly a 7th-to-9th grade level. Easier-to-read content keeps visitors engaged, reduces bounce, and is accessible to a wider audience, all of which support your SEO and conversion goals.
Flesch-Kincaid, Gunning Fog, SMOG and Coleman-Liau each estimate the US school grade needed to understand the text, using factors like average sentence length, syllables per word and the share of complex words. A grade of 8 means an average 13–14 year-old could read it comfortably.
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