Free cliché detector. Scans your text for ~150 well-known clichés across business jargon, idioms, metaphors, weasel phrases, romance, and sports.
Use the cliché detector when polishing business writing, marketing copy, or persuasive essays. Especially valuable for executive communication where over-familiar phrasing reads as inauthentic.
Cliché detection complements filler-word detection: clichés are over-familiar phrases; fillers are over-used single words. Both surface weak writing.
The cliché detector matches against a curated list of roughly 150 well-known clichés, tagged by category: business jargon, idioms, dead metaphors, weasel phrases, romance, and sports.
Matches are exact and case-insensitive with word-boundary checks, so "tip of the iceberg" matches but "iceberg tip" doesn't.
You can filter categories on/off and supply your own custom list for domain-specific clichés.
No. Some serve as shorthand your audience expects. Use the detector as a flag, not an automatic delete.
Yes — enter comma-separated phrases in the custom field. Useful for domain-specific clichés (industry jargon, brand voice guidelines).
Matching is exact. "At the day's end" won't match "at the end of the day" — the detector catches the canonical form. Add variants via custom.
Input
"At the end of the day, our team really hit it out of the park."
Output
2 clichés detected: "at the end of the day" (weasel), "hit it out of the park" (sports).
Clichés flatten writing and signal lazy thinking. Each match shows the category so you can decide which deserve rewriting.
% content words vs. function words.
analysisVocabulary variety — type‑token ratio.
analysisTotal + per‑word syllable counts.
analysisHighlight passive sentences in your writing.