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How the language detector works
The detector looks at the writing system first: Cyrillic text is already narrowed to Russian, Ukrainian, and their relatives; Devanagari points to Hindi or Marathi. Within a script, it identifies the language from common short words, letter combinations, and accent marks, the same signals a fluent reader picks up at a glance. It recognizes 100+ languages and shows a confidence score with every result, so you know whether to trust the answer or paste in more text.
What language is this? Tips for an accurate answer
- Give it a full sentence. A single word like “tres” exists in Spanish, French, and Portuguese at once. Length is the biggest thing that improves detection.
- Watch for close cousins. Spanish and Portuguese, Indonesian and Malay, Norwegian and Danish share a lot. If the result looks off, paste more of the text and detect again.
- Romanized text is the hard case. Hindi or Arabic written in English letters loses the script clue, so confidence will be lower. More text helps here too.
For a deeper look at when detection is reliable and when it struggles, read our guide: How to detect what language a text is in, free.
After you identify the language
- Translate the text into your own language, with the source language already known.
- Transliterate it into the Latin alphabet if you want to pronounce names and places, not translate them.
- Clean the text first if it came from a messy PDF or email paste.