Lint English Prose for Style Issues
Paste a draft and get deterministic style findings: clichés, weasel words, passive voice, redundancies, jargon, long sentences, repeated words, and more. Runs locally in your browser.
About this tool
Paste a draft to find common style problems before you publish or send it for review. The linter is deterministic and offline: it uses an embedded rule set, not an AI model, so the same input produces the same report every time.
It can flag tired clichés, vague weasel words, filler adverbs, hedges, corporate jargon, wordy phrases, redundancies, passive-voice patterns, repeated words, sentences that begin with "There is" or "So", long sentences, and opt-in E-prime violations. Use checks to run a subset such as cliche,weasel,passive, or start with all,-passive to disable one rule.
Example input:
So the plan was written at the end of the day. We should leverage a best-in-class solution and touch base soon.
Example report output includes:
5 issues found in 22 words / 2 sentences.
LINE:COL RULE ISSUE
1:1 so-start sentence starts with "So"
1:18 passive "was written" is passive voice
1:33 cliche "at the end of the day" is a cliché
Limits and edge cases: input is capped at 1,000,000 bytes; matching is English-only; phrase rules are case-insensitive but not grammar-aware; passive voice is a heuristic that catches common "be + participle" forms and may miss complex constructions; spelling, punctuation, factual correctness, tone, and full grammar repair are out of scope. Treat findings as prompts for revision, not automatic edits.
FAQ
Is this a grammar checker?
No. It does not parse full grammar, correct spelling, or rewrite sentences. It flags deterministic style patterns such as clichés, filler words, passive voice, repeated words, and long sentences so you can decide what to revise.
What should I put in the checks field?
Use all for the default rule set. You can name rules directly, such as cliche,weasel,passive, disable one default rule with a minus sign such as all,-passive, or add the stricter opt-in E-prime rule with all,eprime.
How does the ignore field work?
Enter a comma-separated list of words or phrases your style guide allows, such as very, touch base. Matching is case-insensitive and suppresses findings whose matched phrase exactly equals one of those entries.
Why did it flag a sentence that reads fine?
The tool is intentionally rule-based, so it can produce false positives. For example, a passive construction may be the clearest option, and a phrase that is cliché in marketing copy may be acceptable in dialogue. Review each finding in context.
Developer & Automation Access
Run it from the terminal
Same engine as this page, headless — via the gizza CLI:
gizza tool prose-linter "So the proposal was written at the end of the day, and it is very innovative."New to the CLI? Get gizza →
Open it by URL
Pre-fill and auto-run this tool with query parameters — the names match the API/CLI:
https://gizza.ai/tools/prose-linter/?text=So%20the%20proposal%20was%20written%20at%20the%20end%20of%20the%20day%2C%20and%20it%20is%20very%20innovative.&checks=all&output=report&ignore=very%2C%20touch%20base&max_issues=200&long_sentence_words=30Machine-readable descriptor: tool.json — title + parameters JSON Schema for agents.