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Flesch scores and grade level with sentence-level breakdown.
📖 Formulas run fully offline: Flesch ease = 206.835 − 1.015 × words/sentence − 84.6 × syllables/word. General web copy targets 60-70; legal and academic text legitimately scores lower.
Flesch Reading Ease runs 0-100 (higher is easier); Flesch-Kincaid grade estimates US school-grade reading level. General web copy targets 60-70 ease, roughly 8th-9th grade — plain language, not dumbing down.
Both use just three inputs: words per sentence and syllables per word. Short sentences and shorter words raise scores mechanically — which is also why bullet points and concrete nouns improve readability naturally.
Academic papers, legal contracts, and poetry legitimately score hard. Match your audience, not a universal number: medical patient handouts should score easy; a physics paper should not.
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Common uses: people reach for this tool when they need to use a check readability of my writing, what grade level is my text, flesch kincaid score meaning, or simplify writing readability score free.
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