Turkish Readability Score
Measure the reading ease of your Turkish text with the Ateşman formula: score, level, hardest sentences and longest words, fully in-browser.
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What the Ateşman score measures
Ateşman (1997) is the Turkish adaptation of the Flesch reading-ease formula. It estimates how easy a Turkish text is to read, from the average number of syllables per word and words per sentence:
Score = 198.825 − 40.175 × (syllables ÷ words) − 2.610 × (words ÷ sentences)
| Score | Level |
|---|---|
| 90–100 | Very easy |
| 70–89 | Easy |
| 50–69 | Fairly difficult |
| 30–49 | Difficult |
| 1–29 | Very difficult |
Why a Turkish-specific formula?
Most online tools apply the English Flesch formula to Turkish, which gives wrong numbers. Turkish is easier to measure in one way: every syllable has exactly one vowel, so counting the vowels (a e ı i o ö u ü) counts the syllables reliably.
Target levels
- Blog posts and general web copy: aim for 60–70.
- Technical B2B content: around 50 is reasonable; the audience expects denser text.
This score measures reading ease only, not quality or SEO ranking. Headings and bullet lists have no punctuation, so turn on “each line break is a sentence end” for those. The score is unreliable under 100 words.