Adverb finder
Find adverbs in your text and see which sentences overuse them.
Adverb finder
Paste an article, essay or story and this tool scans every sentence for adverbs, using a combination of a curated dictionary and typical suffixes like "-ly". Each match is listed together with the sentence it came from, so you can see the word in context rather than as an isolated hit — the same view an editor uses when trimming a first draft down to its stronger verbs.
The suffix list is editable, so you can widen or narrow what counts as a match beyond the default "ly" — useful when checking Slovak, Czech or German text, where adverbs don't share English's telltale ending. Custom exceptions let you exclude words that only look like adverbs, such as "family" or "apply", without editing the built-in list. The threshold option sets how many adverbs in one sentence is too many; any sentence over that count is marked so the busiest lines stand out first. Turning off "adverbs of time and place" hides words like "now", "here" and "always", which are rarely the ones worth cutting, and leaves only the modifiers that tend to weaken a sentence.
Choose list output to see every flagged sentence with its adverbs named, or switch to statistics for a compact summary — adverb count, rate per 100 words and how many sentences crossed your threshold. The live tally under the output updates with every keystroke, so you can watch the rate drop as you edit. Highlighting marks each adverb directly inside the sentence text for a quick visual scan.
Everything runs locally in your browser: nothing you paste is uploaded or stored anywhere. When you're done, copy the result, download it as a .txt file, or send the output back into the input to keep refining the same text.