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    Readability

    Score how easy text is to read and highlight long sentences and passive voice.

    Scores are estimates for English; syllables are counted with a heuristic.

    Sentences
    6
    Words
    89
    Syllables
    187
    Complex words
    26
    Words per sentence
    14.8
    Flesch reading ease0 to 100, higher is easier
    14
    Very difficult: best understood by university graduates.
    Flesch–Kincaid gradeUS school grade
    15
    Hard: college level.
    Gunning fogYears of schooling
    17.6
    Very hard: graduate level.
    SMOGYears of schooling
    15
    Hard: college level.
    Coleman–LiauUS school grade, from letters
    18.6
    Very hard: graduate level.
    Automated readability indexUS school grade, from characters
    15.1
    Hard: college level.
    • 30 words or more
    • Grade 12 or above
    • A form of “be” and a past participle
    • Words ending in -ly
    Readability formulas estimate how hard a text is to read. They count words, sentences and syllables. Short words and short sentences are easier to follow. The report was carefully reviewed by the committee before it was finally published. Organisational considerations frequently necessitate comprehensive restructuring of administrative responsibilities, notwithstanding considerable implementation difficulties and unanticipated expenditures. When a sentence keeps adding clauses, qualifications and asides that the reader has to hold in mind until the very end, it becomes really difficult to follow, even for an experienced reader who is patient.