Flesch-Kincaid Reading Ease Score

The tool now also list the number of sentences in a text, as well as the average word length in number of syllables, and (optionally) a list of words and their number of syllables. The measure only works for Dutch texts (for now), because the (still imperfect, but good enough) splitting up of words into their syllables is based on the Dutch language. You can check it out now at https://www.reuneker.nl/files/ld.

A last note is that I am contemplating taking readability measures like this out of the Lexical Diversity Tool, because lexical diversity and readability are related, but certainly not the same. The tool also becomes a bit chaotic and cluttered, so the more reason to give readability its own calculator page some day.

Lexical coverage added to Lexical Diversity Tool

Because I have used of the (Dutch newspaper subcorpus of the) SoNaR-500 as a reference corpus, the measure only works for Dutch texts — for now at least. Although the implementation is still a bit rough, it is workable and correct, but be aware it is still in development.