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Free Paraphrasing Tool: Reword Any Sentence or Paragraph

Paste your text, pick a mode and press Paraphrase. You get the same meaning back in new words, and every word that changed is highlighted, so you can see exactly what the tool did. Names, numbers and dates stay the way you wrote them. It’s free and you don’t need an account.

  • Price and limitsFree. Up to 300 words a run as a guest, 600 with a free account and 3,000 on Pro. Guests get 2,500 words a day across all the tools.
  • ModesStandard, Fluency, Formal, Simple, Shorten and Expand are free. Academic, Creative and Custom come with Pro.
  • How much it changesA synonyms slider with three levels. Light and Balanced are free. Extensive comes with Pro.
  • StyleTwelve writing styles, from Blog post and Essay to Email and Press release, so the result suits where it’s going.
  • What stays putProtect names & numbers is on from the start. You can also freeze any word so it never changes.
  • Files and languagesPaste text or upload a PDF, Word, TXT or Markdown file up to 25 MB. It works in 64 languages, Tagalog included.

Last updated 30 September 2026.

How to use the paraphrasing tool

1

Paste your text

Type it, paste it or upload a file. One sentence is fine, and so are a few paragraphs.

2

Pick a mode

Standard works for most jobs. Choose Simple for plainer words, Formal for work, or Shorten and Expand to change the length.

3

Check the changes

Changed words are highlighted. Click one to see other options, freeze words you want to keep, or run it again for a new version. Then copy or download it.

A real paraphrase, unedited

We ran this through the tool as a guest on 30 September 2026, in Standard mode at Balanced. Nothing below was changed.

Your text67 words

I have been working in customer support for three years, and in that time I have learned that most angry customers just want to be heard. When I answer a complaint, I try to repeat the problem back to them before I offer a fix. This small step has cut down the number of follow-up emails I get, because people feel that someone actually read their message.

Paraphrased56 words

Over the past three years in customer support, I've discovered that most upset customers simply want to be listened to. When I respond to a complaint, I first restate the issue before suggesting a solution. This brief practice has reduced the amount of follow-up emails I receive, as people feel their messages have truly been read.

  • It rebuilt the sentences“I have been working in customer support for three years” became “Over the past three years in customer support”. The other two sentences were reworded from start to finish.
  • The facts stayedThree years, the complaints, the follow-up emails. Everything is still there, and nothing new was added.
  • One slip to fix“Cut down the number of follow-up emails” became “reduced the amount of follow-up emails”. You count emails, so it should still say number. In the tool you’d click the word and swap it back.

See every change before you keep it

The result comes back with changed words highlighted against your original. Anything that isn’t highlighted is exactly as you wrote it.

  • Click a highlighted word to swap it for another option.
  • Freeze a word and it stays the same in every later run.
  • Switch to Original to compare the two side by side.
  • In the screenshot, the year, the organisation, 3.4 kg and 12 weeks weren’t touched. That’s Protect names & numbers at work.
The AI paraphrasing tool showing a rewritten research passage with every changed word highlighted, while the year, the organisation name, 3.4 kg and 12 weeks remain unchanged.
A real run in Standard mode at Balanced.

Paraphrasing modes and when to use each

Making a sentence plainer and making it more formal are opposite jobs, so each has its own mode. Six are free and three come with Pro.

Standard

Rewords the text and keeps the same level of formality. Start here.

Fluency

Smooths out awkward wording. Good for a draft written in your second language. Fluency mode page

Formal

Turns a casual message into something you’d send to a manager or a client. Formal mode page

Academic Pro

Precise and neutral, for essays and reports. It won’t add evidence or citations.

Creative Pro

Moves furthest from your wording, with fresh vocabulary and new sentence shapes.

Custom Pro

Write your own instruction, like “keep it under 40 words and drop the jargon”.

Mode, synonyms and style in one menu

Three settings decide what you get back. The defaults are fine for a first run.

  • The mode sets the kind of rewrite, like Simple or Formal.
  • The synonyms slider sets how far it goes. Light stays close to your words, Balanced rebuilds sentences, and Extensive (Pro) rebuilds nearly all of them.
  • Style sets who it’s for, like Blog post, Essay or Email. General leaves the voice as it is.
  • Protect names & numbers sits under the slider and stays on unless you switch it off.
The mode menu of the AI paraphrasing tool listing Standard, Fluency, Formal, Academic, Simple, Creative, Shorten and Expand, with the synonyms slider and the Protect names and numbers switch below it.
The mode menu, with the synonyms slider and the protection switch.

Three more runs: simpler, shorter, longer

Guest runs from 30 September 2026, all at Balanced, printed as they came back.

Simpler: Simple mode

Your text39 words

Please be advised that, pursuant to the updated policy, employees are required to submit reimbursement requests no later than 30 days following the date on which the expense was incurred. Requests received after this period will not be processed.

Simple mode29 words

Please note that, according to the new policy, employees must submit reimbursement requests within 30 days of the expense date. Any requests submitted after that will not be processed.

“Pursuant to the updated policy” became “according to the new policy”, and “no later than 30 days following” became “within 30 days of”. The rule and the 30 days didn’t change. More on Simple mode.

Shorter: Shorten mode

Your text67 words

I wanted to reach out to you today in order to let you know that, due to the fact that our supplier has experienced some unexpected delays in their shipping schedule, we are unfortunately not going to be able to deliver your order on the date that we had originally promised, which was Friday, 3 October. We now expect it to arrive on Tuesday, 7 October instead.

Shorten mode32 words

I’m writing to inform you that our supplier’s unexpected shipping delays mean we can’t meet the promised delivery date of Friday, 3 October. We now expect your order on Tuesday, 7 October.

67 words down to 32. Both dates came through. It did cut “unfortunately”, so add a sorry back if the customer needs one. More on Shorten mode.

Longer: Expand mode

Your text18 words

Meeting moved to Tuesday 10am. Room B not available, we'll use Zoom. Please bring the Q3 sales numbers.

Expand mode32 words

The meeting has been rescheduled for Tuesday at 10 a.m. Since Room B will not be available, we will hold the session via Zoom. Please remember to bring the Q3 sales numbers.

It wrote the notes out as full sentences and joined them up (“Since Room B will not be available”). It didn’t invent an agenda or a meeting link. More on Expand mode.

Paraphrase in Tagalog and 63 other languages

Pick the language from the menu or leave it on Auto detect. Here’s a Tagalog paragraph run with Filipino / Tagalog selected.

Tagalog text46 words

Maraming estudyante ang nahihirapang magsulat ng sanaysay dahil hindi nila alam kung paano sisimulan ang unang talata. Mas madali kung isusulat muna ang pangunahing ideya sa isang pangungusap bago magdagdag ng mga detalye. Sa ganitong paraan, hindi naliligaw ang mambabasa at malinaw ang takbo ng argumento.

Paraphrased49 words

Maraming estudyante ang nahihirapang gumawa ng sanaysay dahil hindi nila alam kung paano uumpisahan ang unang talata. Mas magiging madali ito kung ilalahad muna ang pangunahing ideya sa isang pangungusap bago idagdag ang mga detalye. Sa ganitong paraan, hindi malilito ang mambabasa at mananatiling malinaw ang daloy ng argumento.

It swapped words (“sisimulan” to “uumpisahan”, “takbo” to “daloy”) and reshaped the second sentence, and the meaning stayed the same. The Tagalog paraphrasing tool page has more, including a Taglish example.

How to paraphrase, step by step

Paraphrasing means saying something again in your own words while keeping what it means. Here’s how to do it by hand, which is also the best way to check a tool’s work.

  • 1. Read it until you get itRead the passage twice. If you can’t explain it to a friend, you can’t paraphrase it yet.
  • 2. Look awayCover the original and write the idea from memory. This is what stops you copying its sentence shape.
  • 3. Change the structureStart from a different part of the idea, or split one long sentence into two. Swapping synonyms into the same sentence isn’t enough.
  • 4. Keep the key termsWords like photosynthesis or net income can stay. There’s no good synonym, and forcing one makes it worse.
  • 5. Check it against the sourceEvery fact should still be there, and so should every may or might. Nothing new should have crept in.
  • 6. Cite itIf the idea came from someone else, add the citation, even though the words are now yours. The citation generator can format it.
Source

Adherence, rather than the fasting protocol itself, appeared to be the strongest predictor of outcome.

Paraphrased by hand

What mattered most seemed to be whether people stuck to the plan, not which fasting plan they followed.

The order of the ideas changed, the wording is new, and “appeared to be” is still a hedge (“seemed to be”). The source sentence comes from a research summary we wrote for testing.

Is paraphrasing plagiarism?

It depends whose words you start with.

Your own draft

Rewriting your own draft is just editing. There’s no one to credit, so use any mode you like. If English is your second language, polishing your own writing is fine too. The ideas were yours to begin with.

Someone else’s text

You still need to cite it, even if you changed every word, because the idea is still theirs. That’s the rule people get wrong most often. And if the exact wording matters, like a definition or a legal phrase, quote it instead.

Patchwriting, and how much to change

  • PatchwritingKeeping the author’s sentence structure and order of ideas and just swapping in synonyms. Most schools treat it as plagiarism, even when every word is different.
  • What a real paraphrase changesThe structure and the order the ideas come in. If you lay your version over the original and the clauses still line up one for one, it’s patchwriting.
  • Some words can stayPhotosynthesis, myocardial infarction, the defendant. Keeping terms like these is correct. More changed words doesn’t make a better paraphrase.
  • Paraphrasing vs summarizing vs quotingQuote when the exact words matter. Paraphrase when the idea matters but the wording doesn’t. Summarize when you only need the main point. All three need a citation.
  • Rewording to beat a checkerRewording something just so a similarity report won’t flag it is misconduct in its own right. It’s not what this tool is for.

Watch the small words

A paraphrase rarely breaks loudly. More often it makes a claim a little stronger or weaker, and still reads fine.

Balanced

Compliance, rather than the specific fasting regimen, seemed to be the most significant factor influencing results.

Extensive

Compliance, rather than the specific fasting regimen, emerged as the most significant factor influencing results.

Two real runs of the same sentence. “Seemed to be” is an impression. “Emerged as” sounds like a finding. Before you keep a paraphrase of a source, check words like may, appeared, suggests and tends to.

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Text you shouldn’t paraphrase

  • Direct quotes. If it’s in quotation marks, it has to match the source word for word.
  • Legal wording. Contracts, terms and consent forms mean what they say because of the exact words. A smoother version is a different document.
  • Definitions and dosage instructions. Anywhere “roughly right” is wrong.
  • Someone’s own account. A personal statement or an interview answer belongs to the person who said it.

If you need one of these in your work, quote it and cite it.

When one sentence won’t come out right

If you’re typing “rewrite my sentence” into a search box, try these first.

Split it

A sentence that fights you is often two sentences. Break it at the comma and try again.

Find the verb

“Carried out an assessment of” is just “assessed”. Put the action back in the verb.

Say it out loud

Then type what you said. Spoken sentences are usually clearer than written ones.

Then try Simple

Paste the sentence in and run Simple mode. It unpacks a tangled line instead of dressing it up.

Who uses a paraphrasing tool

Students and researchers

Put a source into your own words for a literature review, then cite it. The highlights make it easy to check you changed the structure and not just the words.

A student writing at a library table with open textbooks and a laptop.

People at work

Make a technical paragraph readable for a client, tidy up a rushed message, or cut a report that runs long.

A professional at an office desk on a call, reviewing printed documents beside two monitors.

Second-language writers

Say what you meant to say. Polishing your own English draft is editing, and the ideas stay yours.

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Paraphrasing tool FAQs

What is a paraphrasing tool?

A tool that rewrites text in different words while keeping the meaning. You paste a sentence or a paragraph and get a new version back. This one also highlights what changed, so you can check it.

Is this paraphrasing tool free?

Yes, and you can use it without an account. Six of the nine modes and two of the three synonym levels are free. Academic, Creative, Custom and the Extensive level come with Pro. The pricing page has the details.

How many words can I paraphrase at once?

Up to 300 words a run as a guest, 600 with a free account and 3,000 on Pro. For a longer essay, do it a few paragraphs at a time.

How do I paraphrase something?

Read it until you understand it, write the idea from memory, change the sentence structure, keep the key terms, check it against the source and cite it. The steps above go through each one.

Is paraphrasing plagiarism?

Not if you cite the source and really rewrite it. It is plagiarism if you reword someone else’s work and don’t credit them, or if you only swap synonyms into their sentences.

Is using a paraphrasing tool cheating?

Using one on your own draft is editing. Using one on someone else’s work without citing them is plagiarism, the same as if you reworded it by hand. Some courses also limit AI tools, so check your school’s rules.

Do I still need to cite it if I changed every word?

Yes. The citation credits the idea, not the wording.

What is patchwriting?

Keeping the author’s sentence structure and order of ideas and only swapping in synonyms. Most schools treat it as plagiarism. A real paraphrase changes the structure too.

What’s the difference between paraphrasing and summarizing?

A paraphrase keeps all the detail and is about the same length. A summary keeps only the main points and is much shorter. For a summary, use the summarizer.

Will it change my numbers, names and citations?

Not with Protect names & numbers on, and it’s on by default. You can also freeze any word. Still, read the dates and figures once before you use the result.

Can it paraphrase in Tagalog and other languages?

Yes, in 64 languages. Pick yours from the menu or leave Auto detect on. For Tagalog and Taglish, see the Tagalog paraphrasing tool page.

Can I paraphrase a whole essay or article?

Yes, in parts. Paste a few paragraphs at a time within your word limit, or upload the file. Read each part before you move on.

Is a rephraser the same as a paraphraser?

Yes. Rephraser, rewording tool, sentence rewriter and paraphraser all mean the same thing: saying it again in different words.

Which mode should I use?

Standard for most things. Simple to make it easier to read, Formal for work, Fluency to smooth your own second-language draft, and Shorten or Expand to change the length.

Can I use it to get past a plagiarism checker?

Please don’t. Rewording text just to avoid a similarity report is misconduct in its own right. Paraphrase properly and cite the source instead.

Can I reword someone else’s article and publish it?

You can reword it, but it’s still their article. The research and the ideas are theirs, and a reworded copy gives readers nothing new. Use the tool on your own drafts.

What happens to the text I paste in?

It’s sent to make the rewrite and isn’t stored afterwards. Your draft is saved in your own browser so you can come back to it. The privacy policy has the details.

The rest of the toolkit

Summarize when you only need the main point, check the grammar of your rewrite, or change its tone. One plan covers all of them.

AI rewriter pages for every kind of writing

Pick a page for what you’re rewriting, like a sentence, an essay or an email, for how far you want it to change, or for the language you write in. Every page runs this same rewriter and shows a real before and after. Standard is the default everywhere. Academic, Creative and Custom come with Pro and are in the mode menu above. The AI rewriter is the same tool under another name.

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