Find hedge words ("might", "perhaps", "appears to") that undercut confident writing. Get a confidence score weighted for your domain: marketing, academic, legal, or general.
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.
Hedge detection is the confidence dimension of the filler / passive / adverb family. Together they form a complete weak-prose audit.
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.
Words that signal uncertainty: might, may, could, perhaps, possibly, seems, appears, suggests, somewhat, generally, etc.
No. Academic and legal writing require hedging to signal epistemic care. Marketing and confident persuasion punish it. Set the domain selector accordingly.
Confidence = 100 − (hedge rate × domain weight). Marketing weight is highest (5), academic lowest (1.5).
Input
"It might be possible that our approach could perhaps yield some improvement."
Output
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."
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