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Hedge Word Detector

Trouve les mots de prudence ("might", "perhaps", "appears to") qui sapent l'écriture assurée. Obtenez un score de confiance pondéré pour votre domaine : marketing, académique, juridique ou général.

Non conçu pour le Français

Cet outil a été calibré pour l'anglais (et quelques langues proches). Les résultats en Français risquent de ne pas être significatifs.

Quand l’utiliser

Use the hedge-word detector for marketing copy, executive writing, or any context where confidence sells. Inverse use: in academic and legal writing, hedging signals epistemic care — high hedge rates are expected.

Comparaison

Hedge detection is the confidence dimension of the filler / passive / adverb family. Together they form a complete weak-prose audit.

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Comment ça marche

Hedges are words that signal uncertainty: modal verbs (might, could), probability adverbs (perhaps, possibly), and tentative verbs (seems, appears).

The detector counts both single-word hedges and multi-word phrases ("it could be argued", "to some extent").

The confidence score is 100 minus the hedge rate times a domain-specific weight — marketing penalizes hedges heaviest, academic lightest.

FAQ

What are hedge words?

Words that signal uncertainty: might, may, could, perhaps, possibly, seems, appears, suggests, somewhat, generally, etc.

Is hedging always bad?

No. Academic and legal writing require hedging to signal epistemic care. Marketing and confident persuasion punish it. Set the domain selector accordingly.

How is the confidence score calculated?

Confidence = 100 − (hedge rate × domain weight). Marketing weight is highest (5), academic lowest (1.5).

Exemple concret

Entrée

"It might be possible that our approach could perhaps yield some improvement."

Sortie

4 hedges in 12 words (33%) — confidence 0/100.

"Might", "possible", "could", "perhaps", "some" — every claim is hedged. A confident rewrite: "Our approach yields a measurable improvement."

Pièges courants

  • Hedging is appropriate in scientific writing — "the data suggest" is correct, not weak.
  • Modal verbs (might, could) have both hedging and capability meanings — context matters.
  • Eliminating all hedges produces overconfident prose that strikes readers as naïve.
  • Domain weighting matters — set the correct preset for accurate scoring.

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