Pseudo-Localization Generator

What pseudo-localization is

Pseudo-localization replaces your text with a transformed version that looks foreign but is still readable — Wélçömé báçk! — while deliberately making it longer and wrapping it in markers. You run your app with it before you spend anything on real translation, and layout problems jump out immediately.

What each transform catches

• Accented characters reveal text that's been baked into images or that your fonts can't render.
• +40% expansion mimics languages like German and Finnish and exposes buttons, tabs, and menus that clip or overflow.
• Boundary brackets (⟦…⟧) show where one string starts and ends — if a bracket is missing, you've found a hard-coded, untranslatable string, or two strings concatenated in code.

How to use it

Paste a representative string (or a whole screen's worth), copy the pseudo-localized output, and drop it into your UI in place of the original. Anything that clips, breaks, or stays in plain English is a bug to fix before you translate for real.

Then translate for real

Pseudo-localization proves your UI is ready to be translated; Gloty does the actual translation — automatically, across your whole WordPress site, into 125+ locales. Estimate the cost with the translation cost calculator.