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The Oxford 3000

Oxford 3000™ Text Checker

previously called Oxford 3000 Profiler

To find out which words in a text are part of the Oxford 3000, type or paste it into the box, then click ‘submit’. The words which are not part of the Oxford 3000 will be highlighted in red. The Text Checker will also tell you what percentage of the words in your text are part of the Oxford 3000. You can use this information to judge the difficulty of a text. In general, the more words highlighted in red, the more difficult the text.

In a typical lower intermediate text close to 100% of the words will be Oxford 3000 keywords.
In a typical upper intermediate text 90-95% of the words will be Oxford 3000 keywords.
In a typical advanced text 75-90% of the words will be Oxford 3000 keywords.

The Text Checker will automatically ignore any numbers (in the form ‘25’ or ‘twenty-five’) or symbols. If there are any proper names in your text, such as Oxford or Smith, you can enter them in the ‘ignore’ box. This will make sure that the Text Checker does not mistake them for difficult words and highlight them in red.

The Text Checker will also check your text to see if there are any words from the specialist lists (Arts, Science and Business and finance). These words will be highlighted in blue.

Enter the text to check for ALD7 keywords:

Enter any words to be ignored in this box:

Ignore words containing numbers

Press this button to check the text: .