Text Statistics

Text Statistics

Text Statistics runs a deeper analysis than a word count: readability scores, vocabulary richness, sentence complexity, and paragraph structure, all from a block of pasted text.

What the measures mean

Vocabulary richness is the ratio of unique words to total words. A low ratio means heavy repetition, which is sometimes deliberate and often a sign of a draft that needs editing.

Sentence complexity comes mostly from average sentence length. Long sentences are not automatically bad, but a document where every sentence is long is tiring to read, and one where they are all short reads as choppy. The useful signal is variation, not a single target number.

Worked example

When it helps

• Diagnosing why a draft feels heavy without being able to say why.
• Checking that writing matches the reading level of its audience.
• Finding paragraphs that have quietly grown to twice the length of their neighbours.
• Comparing your own writing across pieces to spot habits.

Common mistakes

• Optimising for a score. Readability formulas measure sentence and word length, not clarity, and you can score well while making no sense.
• Applying general readability targets to technical writing, where necessary terminology is long by nature.