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Dale–Chall Readability Calculator

The Dale–Chall formula identifies the percentage of unfamiliar words and produces a grade-level score.

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Use Dale–Chall when your audience is children, English learners, or general adults reading material outside their expertise. Because it scores familiarity (not syllable count), it catches problems that other formulas miss — like "epistemology" vs. "knowledge".

موازنہ

Dale–Chall is the only mainstream formula that scores vocabulary familiarity. Compared to Flesch–Kincaid it is much more sensitive to word choice and much less sensitive to sentence length. Pair it with Flesch–Kincaid for a balanced view.

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The Dale-Chall formula compares your text against a fixed list of approximately 3,000 "familiar" words that 80% of 4th-graders know.

Words not on the list are considered "difficult." The formula combines the percentage of difficult words with average sentence length.

This implementation uses the New Dale-Chall (1995) revision with 2,942 words, courtesy of the open-source `dale-chall` package.

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What is the Dale-Chall familiar word list?

A list of approximately 3,000 words that 80% of 4th graders are familiar with. We use the New Dale-Chall (1995) revision with 2,942 words.

Why is a word marked unfamiliar even though it seems common?

Dale-Chall is conservative. Suffixes (-ed, -ing) are stripped before matching, but uncommon spellings, regional words, and most proper nouns count as unfamiliar.

What is a target score?

A raw Dale-Chall score of 5.0–5.9 means easily understood by 5th–6th graders. Marketing and consumer text typically target 6.0–6.9.

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Dale–Chall Score: 11.4 — College graduate.

Six of seven words are not on the Dale–Chall familiar-words list. The high "unfamiliar word" ratio combines with the single long sentence to produce a graduate-level score.

عام غلطیاں

  • The familiar-words list is from 1995; modern technical and internet vocabulary is mostly absent (everything is "unfamiliar").
  • Proper nouns, brand names, and place names all count as unfamiliar by default.
  • Specific to American English; British spellings ("colour", "organisation") may not match list entries.
  • A small text sample with one unusual word can swing the score dramatically.

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