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gunning fog index

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.01 in modern English

Syllables
gun-ning -fog in-dex
IPA
29
Scrabble Score
15
Letters
4
Syllables
9
Unique Chars

Meaning

name

A readability metric for English writing, estimating how many years of formal education a person needs in order to understand the text on the first reading. It is based on the average sentence length and the proportion of words of three or more syllables.

Etymology

Developed in 1952 by Robert Gunning.

Inflected Forms

the Gunning fog index (canonical)

Questions

What does gunning fog index mean?
A readability metric for English writing, estimating how many years of formal education a person needs in order to understand the text on the first reading. It is based on the average sentence length and the proportion of words of three or more syllables.
Where does gunning fog index come from?
Developed in 1952 by Robert Gunning.

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