Wednesday, September 07, 2005

Readability Statistics

Jeigh ran spell check on her whole Emerican Adventure novel to check the readability statistics. This was a simple task which only involved checking the "readability statistics" box under options, spelling/grammar and then going through all of the purposely missppeledd words. Here's what she learned.

56, 619 words
247,608 characters
2417 paragraphs
6316 sentences
2.7 sentences/paragraph
8.9 words/sentence
4.1 characters/word
1% passive sentences
81.7 reading ease
4.0 grade level


Uses of words:
probably: 30 times
maybe: 51
Like: 226
Moment: 14
Rather: 5
A bit: 14
Seemed: 35
Completely: 3

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