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Readability report for http://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Los_Angeles%252C_California
readability grades:
Kincaid: 4.9
ARI: 6.4
Coleman-Liau: 13.2
Flesch Index: 76.3
Fog Index: 8.0
Lix: 33.6 = below school year 5
SMOG-Grading: 8.5
sentence info:
182 characters
37 words, average length 4.92 characters = 1.43 syllables
4 sentences, average length 9.2 words
50% (2) short sentences (at most 4 words)
0% (0) long sentences (at least 19 words)
5 paragraphs, average length 0.8 sentences
0% (0) questions
25% (1) passive sentences
longest sent 17 wds at sent 3; shortest sent 2 wds at sent 2
word usage:
verb types:
to be (1) auxiliary (0)
types as % of total:
conjunctions 5(2) pronouns 0(0) prepositions 11(4)
nominalizations 0(0)
sentence beginnings:
pronoun (0) interrogative pronoun (0) article (1)
subordinating conjunction (0) conjunction (0) preposition (0)
readability grades:
en:Kincaid: 4.9
en:ARI: 6.4
en:Coleman-Liau: 13.2
en:Flesch Index: 76.3
en:Fog Index: 8.0
en:Lix: 33.6 = below school year 5
en:SMOG-Grading: 8.5
sentence info:
182 en:characters
37 en:words, average length 4.92 characters = 1.43 en:syllables
4 en:sentences, average length 9.2 words
50% (2) short sentences (at most 4 words)
0% (0) long sentences (at least 19 words)
5 en:paragraphs, average length 0.8 sentences
0% (0) en:questions
25% (1) en:passive sentences
longest sent 17 wds at sent 3; shortest sent 2 wds at sent 2
word usage:
en:verb types:
to be (1) auxiliary (0)
types as % of total:
conjunctions 5(2) en:pronouns 0(0) en:prepositions 11(4)s 0(0)
sentence beginnings:
pronoun (0) en:interrogative pronoun (0) en:article (1)
en:subordinating conjunction (0) conjunction (0) en:preposition (0)
Contents |
[edit] See also
[edit] Simple Wikipedia
[edit] English Wikipedia
- en:Category:Readability tests
- en:Readability
- en:Gunning-Fog Index
- en:Readability test
- en:Flesch-Kincaid Readability Test - Flesch-Kincaid Reading Ease + Flesch-Kincaid Grade Level
- en:SMOG Index
- en:Automated Readability Index
- en:Coleman-Liau Index
- en:Fry Readability Formula
[edit] External links
- Writing Sample Analyzer, reports on the Flesch Reading Ease, Fog Scale Level, and Flesch-Kincaid Grade Level for a given piece of text.
- Writing Sample Analyzer, reports on the Flesch Reading Ease, Fog Scale Level, and Flesch-Kincaid Grade Level for a given piece of text.
- Readability Analyzer, an online tool for measuring the Flesch Reading Ease, Grade level, and Gunning-Fog Index of given text.
- the Fry Readability Formula, provides a program for determining readability based on the Fry Readability Formula.
- TextQuest - readability analysis, computes the values of more than 60 readability formulas for 7 different languages.
- Readability Analysis, non-English readability tests from the University of Texas.
- Leicht Lesbar A Swiss site (in German) to calculate the text score
- GNU Style and Diction Command line programs to calculate score
- Online readability tool based on the Perl
Lingua::EN::Fathom module and the GNU Style program. Text to be analyzed must be on the web with a URL ending in .txt. Originally written as a resource for National Novel Writing Month participants.
