A short, simple sentence
The cat sat on the mat.
A high Flesch score (well into the 90s) — short sentences and short words score as very easy to read.
Readability Score Checker
Get a Flesch Reading Ease score and grade level for English text, or an Ateşman score for Turkish.
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About this tool
The Flesch Reading Ease score estimates how hard a piece of English text is to read, based purely on two measurable things: average sentence length and average syllables per word. Turkish uses a different, purpose-built formula (Ateşman, 1997) since Turkish's regular syllable structure and different sentence conventions make the English formula's constants a poor fit.
How to use it
- Choose the text's language — English (Flesch) or Turkish (Ateşman) — and paste it in.
- The score updates live, along with word count, sentence count and the underlying averages the formula is built from.
- For English text, a Flesch-Kincaid grade level is also shown — roughly the US school grade a reader would need to follow the text comfortably.
Examples
Common problems
- A technical document scores as "very difficult" but that's expected for its audience.
- Readability formulas measure surface difficulty (sentence and word length), not whether the content is appropriate for its intended reader — a legal contract or a medical paper scoring low isn't a defect if that's genuinely who it's written for.