Instant word, character, and sentence counts as you type — plus a deep readability report using Flesch-Kincaid, Gunning Fog, SMOG, and more. Free, no signup, unlimited use.
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Run Free Website AuditWord count is the easy part — most writers really want to know whether their text is easy to read, how long it will take someone to get through it, and where it might be losing readers. This tool gives you both. As you type or paste text, it instantly counts words, characters, sentences, and paragraphs, and estimates reading and speaking time at typical human rates (about 200 words per minute reading, 130 words per minute speaking). Running the full "Analyze Readability" check goes further, applying six well-established readability formulas — Flesch Reading Ease, Flesch-Kincaid Grade Level, Gunning Fog Index, SMOG Index, Automated Readability Index, and Coleman-Liau Index — to estimate the U.S. school grade level a reader would need to follow the text on a first read.
These formulas work from real, measurable properties of the text itself: average sentence length, average word length, and syllable counts, not an AI's subjective opinion of your writing. That makes the score reproducible and explainable — the recommendations point at the exact sentences, word choices, and paragraph lengths driving the score, so you know exactly what to shorten or simplify. Syllable counting uses a standard vowel-group heuristic rather than a full dictionary lookup, so treat the grade-level numbers as a close estimate rather than an exact measurement, and the passive-voice count as a rough flag rather than a grammar check. Everything runs on this page — your text is analyzed to produce the report and isn't stored.