AI word checker
Paste a paragraph and see the words and phrases that make readers stop hearing a person. This is a counter, not a detector: it shows the habit, then you decide whether to cut it.
What stands out
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What this tool counts
It counts words and phrases that show up in the style notes writers share most often: the wind-up before the point, the balanced contrast, the inflated adjective, the intensifier that adds nothing. It also counts em dashes, because people argue about them; a dash is not a fault, and the number alone says nothing about who wrote the text.
It does not score authorship, guess whether a model wrote the paragraph, or compare you with anyone else. It does not send your text anywhere. If you want the sentence-level report and the rewrite, use the full checker; that one runs on our server and still does not store your text.
How to use the count
- Look for a cluster, not a single word. One “quietly” means nothing. A wind-up, a balanced contrast and three inflated adjectives in one paragraph is a pattern.
- Cut the phrase and read the sentence. If the meaning survives, the phrase was decoration. If it collapses, the phrase was carrying something; keep it and cut elsewhere.
- Replace one abstraction with one fact. “A seamless process” becomes “three steps and one email”. The second version gives the reader something to see.
- Read it aloud. The ear catches the rhythm a count cannot.
Why these words, and not a longer list
A long blacklist turns into a superstition. Writers start avoiding “robust” and keep writing the same empty sentence with a different adjective. We keep the list short and pair every entry with a reason, so you can argue with it. If a word is doing real work in your sentence, keep it.
Paste a few hundred words. You get the flagged sentences with a reason for each, then the opening rewritten in your own voice — free, no account.
Related: the longer guide to words that sound like AI · check a whole paragraph · all guides