# Flesch-Kincaid Grade Level stat

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**Category:** Wish List\
**Tags:** statistics\
**Created:** [August 20, 2025, 4:07pm UTC](https://forum.literatureandlatte.com/t/flesch-kincaid-grade-level-stat/149892 "2025-08-20T16:07:19Z")\
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**Author:** ![Frogbottle](https://forum.literatureandlatte.com/user_avatar/forum.literatureandlatte.com/frogbottle/32/36934_2.png) [@Frogbottle](https://forum.literatureandlatte.com/u/Frogbottle)\
**Post date:** [August 20, 2025, 4:07pm UTC](https://forum.literatureandlatte.com/t/flesch-kincaid-grade-level-stat/149892/1 "2025-08-20T16:07:19Z")

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I see that the option to get a Flesch-Kincaid Grade Level of a text has been requested on here before, but not for over a decade. So I’m going to request it again as it would be incredibly useful to authors, like myself, who write for younger readers.

At the moment, I’m having to cut and paste text into MS Word to get a grade level, work in Word until the grade level is in the right area, and then paste it back into Scrivener.

An equivalent capability within Scrivener, with the option to check the grade level of small sections of text (as MS Word does) so that you can identify problematic sentences, would save a lot of faffing about.

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**Author:** ![AntoniDol](https://forum.literatureandlatte.com/user_avatar/forum.literatureandlatte.com/antonidol/32/15972_2.png) [@AntoniDol](https://forum.literatureandlatte.com/u/AntoniDol)\
**Post date:** [August 20, 2025, 10:55pm UTC](https://forum.literatureandlatte.com/t/flesch-kincaid-grade-level-stat/149892/2 "2025-08-20T22:55:07Z")

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PWA does this, I think.

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**Author:** ![RuffPub](https://forum.literatureandlatte.com/user_avatar/forum.literatureandlatte.com/ruffpub/32/36024_2.png) [@RuffPub](https://forum.literatureandlatte.com/u/RuffPub)\
**Post date:** [August 21, 2025, 10:23am UTC](https://forum.literatureandlatte.com/t/flesch-kincaid-grade-level-stat/149892/3 "2025-08-21T10:23:57Z")

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> [@Frogbottle](#):
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> Flesch-Kincaid Grade Level

> **[Readability Report](https://prowritingaid.com/art/334/Readability-Report.aspx)**
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> What is the ProWritingAid Readability Report based on? We'll show you!

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**Author:** ![Frogbottle](https://forum.literatureandlatte.com/user_avatar/forum.literatureandlatte.com/frogbottle/32/36934_2.png) [@Frogbottle](https://forum.literatureandlatte.com/u/Frogbottle)\
**Post date:** [August 21, 2025, 10:40am UTC](https://forum.literatureandlatte.com/t/flesch-kincaid-grade-level-stat/149892/4 "2025-08-21T10:40:23Z")

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I can already do it by exporting/copy-pasting the text into MS Word, but I’d rather do it directly in Scrivener.

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**Author:** ![AntoniDol](https://forum.literatureandlatte.com/user_avatar/forum.literatureandlatte.com/antonidol/32/15972_2.png) [@AntoniDol](https://forum.literatureandlatte.com/u/AntoniDol)\
**Post date:** [August 21, 2025, 10:43am UTC](https://forum.literatureandlatte.com/t/flesch-kincaid-grade-level-stat/149892/5 "2025-08-21T10:43:12Z")

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But PWA integrates with Scrivener seamlessly…

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**Author:** ![Frogbottle](https://forum.literatureandlatte.com/user_avatar/forum.literatureandlatte.com/frogbottle/32/36934_2.png) [@Frogbottle](https://forum.literatureandlatte.com/u/Frogbottle)\
**Post date:** [August 22, 2025, 2:20pm UTC](https://forum.literatureandlatte.com/t/flesch-kincaid-grade-level-stat/149892/6 "2025-08-22T14:20:37Z")

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I’ve now got this function from the Mac OS services menu by following the directions in this post: [Flesch–Kincaid - #8 by gr](https://forum.literatureandlatte.com/t/flesch-kincaid/38646/8)  
I had to download and reinstall Java from here first: [Java Downloads | Oracle United Kingdom](https://www.oracle.com/uk/java/technologies/downloads/)