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Language detector

Detect the language of any text.

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Language detector is free to use as often as you like, directly from this page. It sits under Transform & clean in our catalogue, alongside Add line numbers and Alphabetize words.

How to use it

  1. Open the tool — no signup or install needed.
  2. Enter your input or adjust the available options.
  3. Get your result instantly, then copy or download it.

Frequently asked questions

What is Language detector?

Detect the language of any text.

When would I actually use this?

Cleaning up a paste before it goes anywhere: stripping duplicates from a list, normalising case, removing accents for a filename, or sorting lines.

What is the most common mistake?

Sorting text as if it were ASCII. Accented letters land after Z in a byte sort, which puts "Zurich" before "Émile" and produces a list no reader will accept.

What else is filed next to it?

Add line numbers, Alphabetize words and Alternating case (mocking) generator share its section. They are not variants of it — being filed together is not the same as being alike — but that is where to look if this turned out not to be the tool you wanted.

Where do the figures come from?

Transformations use the browser's Unicode-aware string handling, so case changes and sorting respect the locale rather than byte order. Nothing is truncated: what comes out is the whole of what went in.

Further reading

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ExplainerDetecting the Language of a Text, and Why Short Texts FailMeasured, not asserted: 90 short real phrases across six languages, none declined and 68 right — 76%, falling to 64% under sixteen letters. Four of the wrong answers came back at 100% confidence.ExplainerSentence Case and Title Case: The Rules Differ by LanguageEnglish title case has three different cutoffs depending on the style guide. French, Spanish, Portuguese and Italian have none at all. German capitalises every noun. The tool knows about none of this — here is exactly what it does.How-toNumbering the Lines of a Text for a Review with Several PeopleNumbering starts at 1 and cannot be set to 0, the alignment is spaces rather than zeros, and the remover undoes eight of the eleven separators without touching the indentation. What it still cannot do is tell your numbers from its own.ExplainerRemoving Accents Breaks Search — Until You Do It on Both SidesFolding diacritics is a normalisation step, and normalisation only works when the same function runs on the index and on the query. NFC against NFD with the code points shown, and the letters — ø, ł, ß, œ, ı — that survive the strip untouched.ExplainerSorting Text Is Not One Operation: Four Orderings That All Call Themselves AlphabeticalCode-unit order, natural order and locale collation run on the same list in Node, with the outputs printed. Why Zebra beats apple, why item10 beats item9, and why ä sits next to a in German but after z in Swedish.GuidePasting a Table Into a Pull Request: What Breaks, and the Two Characters That Break ItA Markdown table has exactly two forbidden characters in a cell: the pipe and the line break. Here is what each one does, how a converter handles them, why the escape has to be applied in the right order, and why padding never matters.