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http://www.readability.info/index.cgi?u=http%3A%2F%2Fsimple.wikipedia.org%2Fwiki%2FLos_Angeles%252C_California

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)

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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)

See also

Simple Wikipedia

• Textual difficulty
• Flesch Reading Ease
• Flesch-Kincaid Reading Level -
• Spache

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

External links

• Developer Gnome

• 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.

• • The Fry Readability Graph

• TextQuest - readability analysis, computes the values of more than 60 readability formulas for 7 different languages.

• Usability and Readability Considerations For Technical Documentation

• Readability Analysis, non-English readability tests from the University of Texas.

• Online readability tool

• Check text readability

• Leicht Lesbar A Swiss site (in German) to calculate the text score

• GNU Style and Diction Command line programs to calculate score

• Communication Nation: How easy is your writing to understand?

• 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.