LIX (abbreviation of Swedish ''läsbarhetsindex'', "readibility index") is a
readability measure indicating the difficulty of reading a text developed by
Swedish
Swedish or ' may refer to:
Anything from or related to Sweden, a country in Northern Europe. Or, specifically:
* Swedish language, a North Germanic language spoken primarily in Sweden and Finland
** Swedish alphabet, the official alphabet used by ...
scholar
Carl-Hugo Björnsson. It is computed as follows:
, where
is the number of words,
is the number of periods (defined by period, colon or capital first letter), and
is the number of long words (more than 6 letters).
Scores usually range from 20 ("very easy") to 60 ("very difficult").
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References
Further reading
* Björnsson, C. H. (1968). ''Läsbarhet''. Stockholm: Liber.
* Björnsson, C. H. (1971). ''Læsbarhed''. København: Gad.
External links
Detailed LIX calculator (in Swedish)
Readability tests