Find out your Dale Chall Readability score with our free tool, built with FlowHunt. Paste your text and hit Enter. A score above 6.0 is considered easy for most people to understand.
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Dale Chall Readability Tool from URL
Find out the Dale-Chall Readability score from your or a competitor’s URL. Comparing your texts with competitors can help you simplify your content, making it easier to understand and remember.
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Dale Chall AI Readability Rewriter
This AI-powered tool can rewrite your text in a few seconds. It uses the prompt to improve the text above the recommended value of 6.0. If your text is above this value, it won’t change anything.
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What is the Dale Chall readability test?
A readability test that is based on a list of popular keywords. It contains 3000 familiar words that an average American fourth grader would understand. These words are considered non-difficult. The fewer words from this list your text contains, the more difficult it is since you probably used less common English words.
The original formula created by Edgar Dale and Jeanne Chall used only 769 words and was published in 1948. The current formula, based on a list of 3000 words, was updated in 1995.
How is the Dale Chall Readability calculated?
0.1579 x (difficult words/words x 100) + 0.0496 (words/sentences)
The result should be between 1 and 9.9. Number 1 is the easiest to understand, and number 9.9 is the most difficult. The table below offers an exact explanation:
| Score | Notes |
|---|---|
| 4.9 or lower | easily understood by an average 4th-grade student or lower |
| 5.0–5.9 | easily understood by an average 5th- or 6th-grade student |
| 6.0–6.9 | easily understood by an average 7th- or 8th-grade student |
| 7.0–7.9 | easily understood by an average 9th- or 10th-grade student |
| 8.0–8.9 | easily understood by an average 11th- or 12th-grade student |
| 9.0–9.9 | easily understood by an average college student |
Interested in other readability metrics? We’ve got them all
Check out other readability metrics: Flesch-Kincaid, Flesch, ARI, Coleman Lieu, Gunning Fog, SMOG, Spache, and Linsear Write.
The Statistics option shows information about the number of words in a sentence, the number of characters in words, the number of polysyllabic words in a sentence, the average words per sentence, and the average syllables per word.
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The image below shows how this tool looks with the FlowHunt interface. Three simple components and a small setting for the Readability Evaluator to evaluate Dale Chall were all it took to build. That’s the Flow for the first tool you see on top of this page.
Seems too easy? The Readability Evaluator from URL with Generator might look like this (and if that won’t convince you, wait till you see AI agents and crews in action):
This Flow in the image above also requires a prompt to work:
You are a skilled copywriter.
Your task is to evaluate readability of {input} .
If it is higher than 6.0 for Dale Chall you need to improve it and return text with readability lower than 6.0.
If readability is lower than 6.0, return original text
---READABILITY METRICS---
{context}
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--- TEXT ---
{input}
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