Greek text difficulty checker
Paste any Greek text here and Beeblio will tell you exactly how much of it sits within your current vocabulary. Every word is matched against frequency ranks drawn from the wordfreq corpus and sorted into bands — the 300 most common Greek words, then the 800, 1,500, 3,000, and beyond — so you can see at a glance whether a passage is comfortably readable or a stretch.
The checker highlights new words (ones that fall just above your chosen level) and rare words (low-frequency items unlikely to be worth memorising yet). This makes it practical for choosing graded readers, news articles, or novel chapters: instead of guessing whether a text is right for you, you get a clear breakdown in seconds.
Comprehensible input works best when you already know around 80% of the words in a text — roughly what the 1,500 most frequent Greek words give you in everyday reading. Use this tool to find texts that sit in that sweet spot and make every study session count.
How it works
Paste a text in Greek (up to 6,000 characters). Every word is looked up in a frequency list; for each band — the top 300, 800, 1,500, 3,000, 5,000, 8,000 and 12,000 words — you see the share of the text a learner at that band already knows. Comprehensible reading sits around 95–98% known: we call ≥97% easy, 92–97% just right, 85–92% hard, and below that too hard.
You also get the new words worth learning (unknown but common, in frequency order) and the rare words — names, jargon, typos — that no learner should stop for.
Questions
Which frequency list does Beeblio use for Greek?
Beeblio uses the wordfreq corpus, a large multilingual frequency dataset built from a wide range of real-world text sources. Word ranks reflect how often each form appears in natural Greek writing, so the numbers are grounded in actual usage rather than a single textbook or dictionary.
Does the checker handle Greek inflections correctly?
Yes. Beeblio looks up each inflected form as it appears in the text, because wordfreq ranks are assigned to surface forms found in real corpora. This means that πηγαίνω and πηγαίνει are each checked against their own real-world frequency, giving you an accurate picture of what a native reader would recognise.
What percentage of a text should I already know before it counts as good input?
A widely used guideline is around 80% word coverage for a text to feel comprehensible. The roughly 1,500 most frequent Greek words reach about that level in everyday text, so Beeblio's 1,500-word band is a useful milestone to aim for before tackling unsimplified material.