Paste at least one full sentence to see your reading ease score and grade level. Aim for an ease score of 60 or higher for general web audiences.
Built by Rankite, the SEO team behind Swordfish AI's +400% revenue and Zluri's +45% organic growth. See the case studies
This tool reads your text the moment you paste it and reports two of the most trusted readability measures: the Flesch Reading Ease score and the Flesch-Kincaid grade level. It also shows the raw inputs behind those numbers, so you can see exactly why a passage scored the way it did: total words, sentences, syllables and the average words per sentence. Lower the average sentence length or trade long words for short ones, and both scores improve in real time.
The Reading Ease score runs from 0 to 100. A higher number means easier reading. It is built from two ratios: the average number of words per sentence and the average number of syllables per word. Long sentences and long words both drag the score down. Most popular blogs and news sites sit in the 60 to 70 range, which lands around an 8th to 9th grade reading level.
| Score | Reading level | Best for |
|---|---|---|
| 90 to 100 | Very easy, 5th grade | Broad consumer audiences and skimmers |
| 70 to 89 | Easy, 6th to 7th grade | General blog and product pages |
| 60 to 69 | Plain English, 8th to 9th grade | Most marketing and web copy |
| 30 to 59 | Difficult, college level | Technical guides and informed readers |
| 0 to 29 | Very difficult, graduate level | Academic and legal documents |
Search engines reward pages that keep people reading. When text is dense and hard to follow, visitors bounce, time on page drops, and those signals tell Google the page did not answer the query well. Writing at an 8th to 9th grade level is not dumbing down; it is respecting that most readers skim on a phone between other tasks. Clear copy holds attention, earns more scroll depth and gives your call to action a chance to land.
Aim for short sentences, plain words and one idea per paragraph. If you want a second opinion on how your live pages read and rank against competitors, request a free SEO audit and we will review your content alongside your technical health.
Generate five copy-ready meta titles and descriptions with a live Google SERP preview.
Score any headline out of 100 live, with checks for length, power words, numbers and openers and a fix for each.
Count characters, words and sentences live, with limit bars for X, Instagram, LinkedIn and Google.
Get a free, no-obligation SEO audit and a 30-minute strategy session. We'll show you exactly where the growth is hiding.
Fill out the form and we'll get back to you within one business day. Prefer email? Write to us directly at contact@rankite.com.