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Grade level and reading ease scores

Syllable counts are an estimate (vowel-group heuristic), not a dictionary lookup — scores are indicative, not exact. These formulas assume a reasonable sample: on one or two short sentences they overshoot badly (Flesch ease above 100, negative grade levels), so paste at least a paragraph.

Sentences

2

Words

27

Syllables (est.)

43

Complex words

4

Avg word length

4.9

Flesch Reading Ease58.4

Fairly difficult — 10th-12th grade

206.835 - 1.015(words/sentences) - 84.6(syllables/words)

Flesch-Kincaid Grade8.5

About grade 8 — easy to moderate

0.39(words/sentences) + 11.8(syllables/words) - 15.59

Gunning Fog11.3

About grade 11 — moderate to difficult

0.4[(words/sentences) + 100(complex words/words)]

SMOG Index11.2

About grade 11 — moderate to difficult

1.0430√(complex words × 30/sentences) + 3.1291

Coleman-Liau Index10.8

About grade 11 — moderate to difficult

0.0588L - 0.296S - 15.8 (L,S per 100 words)

Automated Readability Index8.3

About grade 8 — easy to moderate

4.71(characters/words) + 0.5(words/sentences) - 21.43