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Hedge Word Detector

Vind hedge-woorden ("might", "perhaps", "appears to") die zelfverzekerd schrijven ondermijnen. Krijg een vertrouwens-score gewogen voor jouw domein: marketing, academisch, juridisch of algemeen.

Niet ontworpen voor Nederlands

Deze tool is gekalibreerd voor Engels (en enkele verwante talen). Resultaten in Nederlands zijn waarschijnlijk niet betekenisvol.

Wanneer gebruiken

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.

Vergelijking

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

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Zo werkt het

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.

Veelgestelde vragen

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).

Voorbeeld

Invoer

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

Uitvoer

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."

Veelgemaakte fouten

  • 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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