“Have you tried this Flesch-Kinkyaid readybility?” he asked, knowingly, “Nudge-nudge, know what I mean, nudge-nudge’?”
Ayup!! Hang on to something grounded in reality, for all is to be revealed! It’s just come to me in a flash! NO! I don’t mean one of those flasher experiences. Are you ready?
Flesch-Kinkyaid readybility? <— That … is where E.L. James, gets all her stuff from!!! 
Obvious … init?
… and we wouldn’t want THAT suddenly poppin’ up in Schrrivener, changin’ the shades of the fonts or something. 
Hi. Does Scrivener have Grade Level Reading rating function? Similar to Hemingway.
Jay
Hello jayallen, and welcome to the forum.
No, Scrivener does not have rating tools to help a writer review the reading grades of their work.
Instead, Scrivener’s design is focused on assisting the writer with writing early drafts of the documents in the manuscript while helping keep the reference materials close at hand.
If you’re still learning your way around Scrivener, I’d recommend starting with its Interactive Tutorial, which is a sample project you can access using the Help menu. It’s a good place to learn about Scrivener’s core features and setup.
And, I’m a fan of using the tutorial to test out different features, compile formats, and other items before I use them with my working projects. The tutorial can easily be reset to its original form, so I can be more adventurous with my testing without fearing I’ll break my working project.
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Grading schemes depend on the type of material tested and the audience for it. The man page for FSF’s style program gives short descriptions of what some scheme compare text against. Kincaid, for example, is for grading military manuals. If you really want to use a grading scheme make sure you understand how it was created and what document types is intended to grade.
Also some imlementations of these measures arbitrarily cut off the scale. FSF’s style does not. Word is notorious for cut-offs where style would report a text as being at a post-doctoral research level Word reports it as 12th grade—lot of difference between those two scores.
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I’ve merged this with an existing thread on the topic (though searching the forum for “readability” or “grade rating” would have produced a number of other alternatives to read from, some of which I linked to above. Also worth noting is a technical limitation that would make this quite difficult to reinvent from scratch. Lastly is a tip for Mac users who are not limited by what individual software programs provide themselves (at least for now, Apple seems bent on destroying the fabric of multitasking and cooperative computing in the name of security theatre).
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Thank you for the reply, Ruth!
Thank you for the info! Much appreciated.