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Rephrase, as you know, means to tell something in a different and usually clearer way. A synonym for this word is paraphrase.
There are several tools available online that are used to reword content. They are called rephrasers or paraphrasers or paraphrasing tools.
In this FastLinky blog post I’ll suggest 5 rephrasers, most popular in 2024, you could use should you need rewriting texts.
What is a Rephraser?
If you want to paraphrase a sentence yourself, you will need–
1. strong command over the language you are writing in,
2. a sharp brain,
3, considerable talent and extensive reading and writing experience,
4. willingness and ability to exercise your brains and
5. an obstinate self-esteem.
If it sounds like too much work to you, you can use a rephraser that will do the paraphrasing for you and do it pretty well.
A paraphrasing tool works like this: you copy a text, paste it in the input box of the tool and hit the paraphrase button.
That’s it. The rephrased version of the text will appear, almost instantly, in the output box.
How A Rephraser works
Paraphrasing tools use artificial intelligence (AI) to analyze and rephrase a text to produce a text similar in meaning to the original one but different in diction and sentence structure.
Here I think the meanings of a few relevant technical terms will help you understand the technology that makes these paraphrasing tools tick. So here they are.
Some Relevant Technical Terms and Their Meanings
| Technical Term | Meaning |
| Rephraser (also known as paraphraser or paraphrasing tool) | A software that rephrases or rewrites a text. |
| Artificial Intelligence (AI) | A technology that helps machines mimic human thought processes, analyse data, make suggestions and improve their efficiency without too much human interference. |
| Machine Learning (ML) | A field of AI that helps machines to learn from data without too much human interference. |
| Deep Learning (DL) | A type of ML that provides machines with an artificial neural network so they can mimic human thought processes. |
| Training Data | A collection of data fed to a machine that helps it perform a task and improve its performance. |
When you input a text for paraphrasing, the rephraser, armed with training data and powered by ML and DL, will analyse the text, understand its meaning and rewrite it using different words and sentences in its datasets.
Benefits of Rephrasers
If you need to rephrase a text, a rephraser can do it fast and do it well. There are two key benefits of using a paraphrasing tool that make these tools so popular.
- It Helps You Plagiarise and Get Away With It
You can lift texts from other people’s content, rephrase it using a paraphraser and palm off the reworded version of the original text as your own.
What you just did is called plagiarism, but this is not important. The important thing is no one will be any the wiser.
These modern paraphrasers are so good even the writer of the original text that you steal will shower praises on your writing prowesses, instead of grabbing you by your hair and dragging you to court.
- It Facilitates Fast and Efficient Content Stealing
Powered by AI, a rephraser will rewrite copies almost instantly. You can plagiarise a lot very fast by using such a tool.
Suppose you run a business where you need 20 articles every day for your website.
Now, normally, you will need at least 10 to 15 experienced writers for the job. Scared? No worries, these paraphrasing tools have you covered.
Sit at a quiet corner with your laptop and a cup of coffee. Even before you can finish your coffee, the rephraser you are using will produce 20 counterfeits.
Just try it first and thank me later.
Demerits of a Rephraser
Despite their outstanding contribution to the advancement of content stealing, naysayers have launched a maligning campaign to vilify them.
They attack these tools on the following grounds.
They Encourage Content Thieves
By rewording original content efficiently and in a manner that can deceive a plagiarism checker, a paraphrasing tool encourages worthless, thieving people to rephrase other people’s write-ups and use them for personal benefits.
They Destroy Creative Faculty
People with an underlying dishonesty use these paraphrasers. But the dependence on such a tool destroys the little creativity and power or thinking they have slowly but certainly.
They Devastate Cognitive Development
By encouraging laziness and discouraging honest efforts to practice and learn, these paraphrasing tools wreak havoc on the cognitive development in students.
Over time, instead of hard-working, enterprising, talented and efficient writers, a country gets lazy, corrupt, dishonest and worthless citizens.
They Destroy Quality of Documents
While developing them, their creators feed these tools with training data comprising words, phrases and sentences that are commonly used as examples and referral data.
While paraphrasing a text, the tool will rephrase texts based on those previously fed set diction and sentence structures.
The result will be low quality boring rephrased copies–packed with cliches and devoid of life and uniqueness.
Top 5 Tools to Rephrase in 2024
All right. I’ve told you both the merits and demerits of these tools that rephrase texts. Now I’ll talk about the top 5 most popular paraphrasing tools you can use in 2024.
1. QuillBot Rephraser
QuillBot has 4.3 million + users worldwide who rate it with 4.5 stars out of 5.
This paraphraser has been around for quite some time now and it is probably the best rephraser on our list of top rewriting tools.
Ease of Use
This paraphrasing tool has an easy, user-friendly interface.
You will paste the text you’ve lifted in the input box and hit the paraphrase button. The paraphrased version will appear on the output box almost instantly.
Features and Options
- QuillBot rephraser provides multilingual paraphrasing options.
- It offers 10 different writing modes like natural, formal, academic etc.
- You can also customise the writing mode as per your requirement.
- You can decide how much changes you want in the paraphrased document.
- Provides editing option of the rephrased documents.
- The rephraser provides detailed statistical information of the rewritten documents like word count, line count, fluency score, readability etc.
- QuillBot works on all popular platforms.
- In-built AI powered thesaurus facilitates further fine-tuning of the reworded document.
Cons of QuillBot
- It’s a tool mostly used by content thieves.
- The free version has limited capabilities.
- The premium version will set you back by 4.17 USD/month (billed yearly).
2. Ahrefs Free Paraphrasing Tool
Ahrefs offers a free paraphrasing tool. Relatively newer than QuillBot, this tool has gained quick popularity.
Ease of Use
This tool also has an impressive but simple user interface that helps to rephrase texts easily.
Features and Options
- Offers 16 writing modes.
- Allows multi-variant paraphrasing.
- Provides an option to edit the structure of sentences.
- Has multilingual rephrasing options.
- You can download a copy of the paraphrasing statistics.
Cons of Ahrefs Rephraser
- It is mostly used by unethical thieving people who can’t write themselves.
- A little slower than QuillBot.
- Includes only word and character counts in the statistics.
- The paraphrased documents appear below the input box, which some users may find inconvenient.
3. ZeroGPT Text Paraphraser
ZeroGPT is best known for its AI content detecting tool. But it entered this rephrasing market after ChatGPT came into existence.
Ease of Use
Though ZeroGPT is useful to rephrase texts, the popup ads spoil the sport and endows it with one of the worst user interfaces imaginable in a paraphraser.
Features and Options
This AI driven paraphrasing tool has several useful features.
- Provides fast paraphrasing.
- Offers word, characters and lines, spaces and paragraph counts.
- Reveals readability, reading level and reading time.
- Gives keyword density statistics.
Cons of ZeroGPT
- It is very popular among content thieves, who are the major patrons of such tools.
- Annoying ads mars user experience.
- No multilingual paraphrasing option.
- No multi-tone customisation in the free version.
- The free version has serious limitations.
4. Semrush Free Paraphrasing Tool
Semrush offers an AI-powered free paraphrasing tool which is gaining popularity quickly. You can rephrase texts using its useful features and customisable options.
Ease of Use
Semrush is known for its simple but effective user interface and its paraphrasing tool further strengthens this fame.
A simple but useful interface and a convenient design make it one of the most sought-after rephrasers out there.
Features and Options
- Simple user-friendly interface.
- 5 paraphrasing modes.
- Offers a summariser tool.
- Provides readability status.
- Provides word counts.
Cons of Semrush Rephraser
- Somewhat slow output speed.
- Doesn’t provide much statistical data.
- No multilingual paraphrasing options.
- Not much customisation features.
5. ProWritingAid Rephraser
Of all the rephrasers I studies for this blog post, ProWritingAid does the fastest paraphrasing and provides the least amount of useful statistics.
Ease of Use
ProWritingAid sports an easy user-friendly interface. The input and output boxes are placed side-by-side which is very convenient.
The colour scheme, fonts and font size together provide an eye-soothing user experience.
Features and Options
- Fast paraphrasing.
- Word counter.
- 10 paraphrasing options.
- Characters counter.
Cons of ProWritingAid
- The free version has very limited features and options.
- No word counter.
- No readability statistics.
- No reading level counter.
- Only 10 paraphrases a day.
- Only 500 words per session.
Conclusion
To summarise, a paraphrasing tool will rephrase texts and give them new shape without changing their meanings.
In very few cases, the use of such tools can be justified. But these tools are mostly used by content thieves who are worthless,immoral and stupid.
The use of a rephrasing tool may seriously damage the cognitive development in students. It can also flag you as one never to be trusted.
FAQs.
Q. What is a rephraser?
Ans. A rephraser is a software that rewrites texts.
Q. Are rephrasers banned?
Ans. No. Their use is not illegal.
Q. Are rephrasers costly?
Ans. All good paraphrasing tools have a free version which is adequate for most purposes.
Q. What is AI?
Ans. AI stands for artificial intelligence. It is a technology that makes ‘intelligent’ machines.
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