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Jargon Buster

Jargon Buster finds corporate buzzwords in your text — circle back, leverage, synergy, paradigm shift — and translates each one into plain English. You click the phrases you want gone, so the rewrite stays yours; nothing is uploaded, everything runs in your browser.

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Paste your corporate text
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Paste any corporate text above — or load the example — and every buzzword gets flagged with its plain-English translation. Click phrases to swap them in.

How does Jargon Buster work?

The dictionary holds over 150 buzzword phrases in four categories — meetings, strategy, hype and filler — each paired with a plain-English replacement. Matching is case-insensitive and phrase-aware: multi-word phrases like move the needle are matched as a unit, longest phrase first, with word boundaries so the space never fires inside workspace.

The jargon score

The score is the share of your words that belong to a buzzword phrase. A single word like leverage counts once; at the end of the day counts five. The rating is deliberately unserious — Boardroom Bingo Champion — because the number is the useful part and the label is the shareable part.

Replacements are yours to make

Clicking a highlighted phrase swaps in its plain alternative; clicking again restores the original. Replace-all applies everything at once, and every change is undoable. Filler like very and really is deleted outright — the honest advice for those words — and the spacing is tidied afterwards.

Input

Let's circle back and leverage our synergies to move the needle going forward.

De-jargoned

Let's talk again later and use our combined effort to make a difference from now on.

What options and edge cases does Jargon Buster support?

Jargon categories
ParameterTypeDefaultBehaviour & edge cases
Meetings4 phrasesmeetings: circle back, touch base, deep dive, EODCalendar-fillers: phrases that turn a five-minute chat into a thirty-minute sync.
Strategy4 phrasesstrategy: leverage, synergy, move the needle, low-hanging fruitDeck-speak: words that sound decisive in a slide and mean nothing in a sentence.
Hype4 phraseshype: disrupt, paradigm shift, cutting-edge, best-in-classMarketing glitter: adjectives that promise the future and describe the past.
Filler4 phrasesfiller: at the end of the day, in order to, utilize, veryWordy scaffolding: phrases you can delete — or shrink to one word — and lose nothing.

Frequently asked questions

What counts as jargon here?

Over 150 corporate buzzword phrases in four categories: meetings (circle back, touch base), strategy (leverage, synergy, move the needle), hype (disrupt, paradigm shift, cutting-edge) and filler (at the end of the day, utilize). Each has a plain-English replacement written by a human, not generated.

Does it rewrite my text automatically?

No. Every replacement is a click you make — the tool highlights the jargon and offers the plain alternative, but your sentences stay yours until you decide. Replace-all is there for the brave, and undo brings everything back.

Why is “leverage” flagged when it's a real word?

It is a real word — for prying things open. As a verb meaning “use”, it adds syllables and subtracts clarity, which is the entire business model of corporate jargon. The flag is a nudge, not a rule: click it back if you meant the crowbar.

Can I use it on emails and memos?

That's the main use case. Paste a draft, bust the jargon, copy the result. Shorter sentences with fewer buzzwords are measurably easier to read, and nobody has ever been promoted for writing “leverage our synergies”.

Is my text uploaded anywhere?

No. The dictionary and the matching all live in the page's JavaScript and run in your browser. Drafts, memos and resignation letters never leave your device.

Does it work in languages other than English?

The dictionary is English — corporate jargon is overwhelmingly an English-language phenomenon, and translations would be guesswork. The page chrome is translated; the buzzwords are not.

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