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Plagiarism Checker

Paste your text — we search the web for exact matches to your sentences.

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FAQs

How does this plagiarism checker work?

It splits your text into distinct sentences and searches Google for exact matches of each one, in quotes. If a sentence turns up on another live, indexed page, it's flagged as a match with a link to the source.

What won't it catch?

Only exact-text matches on pages Google has indexed. Paraphrased or reworded copying, text behind a login, and very recently published pages that haven't been crawled yet won't show up as matches.

How many sentences does it check?

Up to 12 per submission — the longest, most distinctive sentences in your text, since short common phrases ("in this article") produce noisy false-positive matches and aren't useful signal anyway.

Is there a limit on how many checks I can run?

Yes — 3 free checks per hour. Each check runs several live web searches behind the scenes, so this is capped tighter than our other free tools.

What's a good originality score?

100% means none of the checked sentences had an exact match elsewhere online. A lower score doesn't automatically mean plagiarism — common phrasing, quoted material, or boilerplate (like standard legal text) can also trigger a match.