# Check how easy your writing is to read

> Paste text for reading ease and grade level. Long sentences, passive voice, adverbs and hard words are marked.

Check English text for Flesch Reading Ease, grade level, long sentences, passive voice and adverbs. Live as you type. Free, and nothing is uploaded.

- Tool: [Readability checker](https://fixmint.cc/readability-checker)
- Category: [Text](https://fixmint.cc/text)
- Fixes: Is my writing hard to read?
- Runs in the browser: files and text stay on the device, no sign-up, free.

## How to check how readable your writing is

1. Paste or type your text in the box.
2. Read the reading ease score and the grade level.
3. Switch the marks on or off to find long sentences, passive voice and adverbs.

## Questions

### What do the Flesch scores mean?

Flesch Reading Ease runs from 0 to 100, and higher is easier. Below 30 is very hard, at college graduate level. 60 to 70 is plain English for most adults, and 90 and over is very easy, at about 5th grade. The bands follow the table published with Rudolf Flesch’s 1948 formula. The grade level uses the Flesch–Kincaid formula from a 1975 US Navy study.

### How are syllables counted?

With a rule-based guess: each group of vowels is one syllable, with allowances for silent endings such as -e, -ed and -es. A list of common words the rules get wrong is fixed by hand. A count can be off by one for a word, so treat the score as an estimate.

### Why are there no scores for my text?

The formulas were made for English. If the page is not in English, or the text has few Latin letters, the sentence counts and highlights still work, but no score is shown.

### Is my text sent anywhere?

No. The checking runs in your browser, and nothing is stored after you close the tab.

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