AI Writing Checker (Words to Avoid)

This checker scans your text for roughly a hundred words and phrases readers have learned to associate with chatbot output: "delve," "tapestry," "in today's fast-paced world," "it's important to note," "leverage," "seamless," the "not only… but also" construction, pile-ups of em dashes, and sign-offs like "I hope this helps." Each hit is highlighted, counted, and paired with a plain suggestion for what to write instead.

It is not an AI detector. It cannot tell who or what wrote a passage, and the tools that claim to are wrong often enough that you should not rely on them either. It only tells you which phrases will make a reader suspect a machine, whether you typed them yourself or pasted them from a chatbot. Use it as an editing pass. It runs in your browser and your text is never uploaded.

How to use it

1. Paste your draft, whether you wrote it or a chatbot did.
2. Read the highlighted words and phrases and the count at the top.
3. Use the suggestion next to each hit to rewrite it in plainer language, or cut it.
4. Paste the revised text back in and repeat until the highlights are gone or deliberate.

Why AI detectors get it wrong

Tools that claim to detect AI writing look for statistical fingerprints: predictable word choices, even sentence lengths, low surprise from one word to the next. The trouble is that plenty of human writing has those properties too. Non-native English speakers, technical writers, students taught to write formally, and anyone editing toward clarity produce text that scores as machine-like. Meanwhile a chatbot asked to write casually, or a person who lightly edits a chatbot draft, sails through.

The result is a tool that cannot be trusted in either direction, which is why it should never decide a grade or a job. This checker makes a narrower claim. It does not guess at authorship. It points at specific phrases that readers now associate with chatbots and lets you decide whether to keep them. That is a judgment you can check yourself, word by word.

Words and phrases that read as AI-written

None of these words are wrong, and all of them appear in good human prose. They become a problem when they cluster, because chatbots reach for them far more often than people do. A dozen of the most common, with what usually works better:

Em dashes deserve a separate note. One is fine. Three in a paragraph reads as a chatbot, because models use them to stitch clauses together where a person would start a new sentence.

• Delve → dig into, look at, explore
• Tapestry → mix, range, or just name the things
• Leverage → use
• Seamless → smooth, or drop it
• Robust → strong, reliable, or say what it survives
• In today's fast-paced world → cut it; start with the point
• It's important to note that → cut it; the sentence works without it
• Not only… but also → two plain sentences, or "and"
• A testament to → shows
• Navigate the complexities of → deal with, handle
• Unlock the potential → say what actually changes
• I hope this helps → end on the last useful sentence