Reading Level Checker
Check Flesch reading ease score and grade level of your writing
Paste or type some text above to see its reading level.
About Reading Level Checker
Analyzes a piece of writing and calculates its Flesch Reading Ease, Flesch-Kincaid, Gunning Fog, SMOG, Coleman-Liau and ARI scores, giving you an objective measure of how easy or difficult the text is to read — useful for checking that content written for a general audience isn't accidentally coming out at a graduate-reading-level of complexity, or the reverse.
Paste your text, and the reading level, word count, and sentence count are calculated automatically.
Shorter sentences and simpler, more common words are the two biggest levers for lowering a reading-level score if your writing is coming out more complex than your intended audience — breaking one long sentence with several clauses into two or three shorter ones usually moves the score more than swapping individual words.
Watch: Reading Level Checker in Action
- What's the fastest way to lower a reading level score?
- Shorter sentences and simpler, more common words are the two biggest levers. Breaking one long sentence with several clauses into two or three shorter ones usually moves the score more than swapping individual words.
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