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Readability Score Checker

Flesch Reading Ease, Gunning Fog, SMOG, and ARI scores — with audience guidance

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What Flesch score should I aim for?

  • 90-100: Very easy — 5th grade. Children's books.
  • 70-90: Easy to fairly easy — 6th-7th grade. Popular fiction.
  • 60-70: Plain English — 8th-9th grade. Sweet spot for web content.
  • 50-60: Fairly difficult — 10th-12th grade. The Wall Street Journal.
  • 30-50: Difficult — College. Most B2B SaaS lands here.
  • 0-30: Very difficult — Academic and legal writing.

How to make text more readable

  • Shorten sentences. Aim for 15-20 words on average. If a sentence has more than one comma, consider splitting it.
  • Simpler words. “Use” beats “utilize”. “Help” beats “facilitate”. Cut Latin, keep Anglo-Saxon.
  • Active voice. “Hyperleap built the chatbot” beats “The chatbot was built by Hyperleap”.
  • One idea per paragraph. Web readers scan — short paragraphs are visually easier.
  • Lists for parallel items. Three or more parallel things become a bullet list.

For LLM-friendly readability (how ChatGPT and Perplexity chunk your content), use LLM Readability Score.

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