# Language Level Score | Harmate

Discover how Harmate turns simple linguistic metrics into an actionable language level score by question, respondent, group, or full cohort.

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- Updated: Sun, 28 Jun 2026 20:48:01 GMT

## Content

#### A language score that is readable, actionable, and traceable.

The language level score combines readability, sentence structure, lexical richness, punctuation, and register signals to help you interpret open answers with more nuance.
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- Global score
- 72/100
- CEFR reading
- B2
- Subscores
- 5
- Lexicon
- Syntax
- Register
- Punct.
- Strength
- Lexical richness
- Watchpoint
- Unstable register
- Use
- Compare cohorts
- Global level
- 0 to 100
- Indicative CEFR reading
- A1 to C2
- Visible components
- 5 families

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#### Live Components

#### Detailed Indicators

#### Scoring methodology

The engine aggregates responses for the selected scope (question, respondent, group, cohort) using the same filters as your other analyses.
- 1. Scope aggregation

We extract simple indicators: average sentence length, lexical density, vocabulary variety, punctuation, abbreviations, and out-of-language words.
- 2. Metric extraction

Each indicator family is normalized onto a shared scale to prevent one raw metric from artificially dominating the score.
- 3. Component normalization

The final score combines weighted components and provides an indicative language level reading (A1 to C2) to simplify reporting.
- 4. Composite score and reading

#### Tracked components

#### Readability

Estimates reading ease with formulas based on sentence and word length.

#### Syntactic structure

Measures sentence complexity through construction variety and structural depth.

#### Lexical richness

Observes word diversity and lexical variety stability across texts of different lengths.

#### Punctuation

Analyzes punctuation density and diversity as an indicator of discourse structuring.

#### Register signals

Detects register signals: abbreviations, code-mixing, and informal markers.

#### Response volume

Integrates useful response length to avoid fragile conclusions from very short verbatims.

#### How to interpret this score

#### Compare before evaluating

The score is especially useful comparatively: between cohorts, between groups, or before/after an intervention.

#### Read subscores

The same global score can come from different linguistic profiles. Components explain what actually changes.

#### Use domain context

Expected level depends on context (training, recruiting, internal diagnosis). The score is not an end in itself.

#### Avoid automated selection use

We recommend using it as a reading and facilitation aid, never as a single criterion for individual decisions.

#### Methodology sources

The score relies on metric families widely documented in readability, linguistic complexity, and CEFR literature.

#### Flesch (1948) - readability

#### Kincaid et al. (1975) - readability formulas

#### McCarthy & Jarvis (2010) - lexical diversity

#### Lu (2010) - syntactic complexity

#### CEFR Companion Volume (Council of Europe)

#### GLUECoS (ACL 2020) - code-switching

#### Related pages

Understand how verbatim collection feeds the language score.
- Open questions

Visualize linguistic indicators alongside your other analysis metrics.
- Dashboards

Analyze real participant responses with the same reading framework.
- Real Mode

Test questionnaires and compare simulated language levels.
- Simulation Mode

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