Registern.

How formal or informal a piece of writing is. Skilled writers modulate register within a single piece — a careful technical sentence next to a plain one — while unedited model output tends to lock into one register and hold it. Variation in register is one of the strongest human signals on the page.


Put it into practice

Rewrite AI-touched text so it reads human — meaning, citations and structure preserved, with an honest before/after score.

Open the humanizer →
In the journal

Where Register comes up.