Reading Level Checker
Estimate the reading level of a text — roughly the school grade needed to understand it.
How hard is this to read?
Readability formulas estimate how difficult a text is by looking at things like sentence length and word length, then expressing the result as an approximate grade level or ease score. This runs your text through that kind of analysis, so you can check whether your writing matches its audience — a public notice that should be simple, a children's piece, or a technical document that can afford to be denser.
Paste the text and it returns an estimated reading level.
A guide, with sensible caution
These scores are useful but blunt. They count syllables and sentence lengths, not actual meaning, so a text full of short familiar words scores as easy even if the ideas are hard, and clear writing with a few long technical terms can score as harder than it reads. Treat the number as a nudge — if it is far above your audience, shortening sentences and simpler words will genuinely help — rather than an exact grade.
Common questions
How is reading level measured?
By readability formulas that use factors like sentence length and word length to estimate an approximate grade level.
Is the score exact?
It is a useful guide, not a precise measure — it looks at word and sentence length, not the actual difficulty of the ideas.
Is my text uploaded?
No. The analysis happens in your browser.