Check Sentences, Style and Syllables

These tools look at the sentences and words in your text. Find active and passive voice, mark long sentences and wordy words, see sentence length and counts, and count syllables in a word, a line or a haiku.

Tools in this group

• Active Voice Checker — Paste your text to see which sentences are active and which use the passive.
• Average Sentence Length Calculator — Paste your text to see its average words per sentence and how sentence lengths are spread.
• Haiku Syllable Counter — Write your poem to count the syllables on each line and check them against 5-7-5.
• Passive Voice Checker — Paste your text to find passive voice phrases and see how many sentences use them.
• Plain Language Examples and Checker — Paste your text to mark long sentences, passive phrases and wordy words.
• Sentence Counter — Paste your text to count its sentences, words and paragraphs.
• Syllable Checker — Paste your lines to check the syllables in each one against a target pattern.
• Syllable Counter — Type or paste a word or any text to count its syllables.