Placeholder copy has one job: to look like text without being readable as text, so a reviewer judges the layout instead of the words. This generator produces that copy in 20 languages, from Latin to Bengali, Arabic, Chinese, Japanese and Swahili, so you can stress-test a layout with the script it will actually hold.
Four output modes cover the shapes most design tools need: full paragraphs for article wireframes, individual sentences for card previews, a flat word run for measuring a headline slot, and a bullet list for feature tables. Length is randomised inside sensible bounds. A sentence lands between 5 and 12 words, a paragraph between 3 and 6 sentences, so blocks vary the way real prose does rather than lining up in uniform columns.
The With Emoji toggle sprinkles one emoji per two sentences (or every 25 words in word mode) from a pool of 28 professional, universally appropriate symbols. Nothing is generated until you press Generate, and none of it involves a network request. Every word pool ships inside the component.
Getting Placeholder Copy Into a Mockup
- Pick a Language from the dropdown or click a flag chip. RTL scripts (Arabic, Persian) set the textarea direction automatically.
- Choose Paragraphs, Sentences, Words or Bullet List.
- Set Count. It means paragraphs, sentences, words or list items depending on the mode, so 50 is a wall of text in one mode and a single paragraph in another.
- Tick With Emoji if the mockup needs to show how the layout handles inline emoji. Untick it for clean typographic testing.
- Press Generate, then press it again for a different draw from the same settings.
- Press Copy and paste. Output is plain text including the
• characters in list mode.
What It Accepts and What Stays Fixed Per Language
- Each language has its own pool of roughly 60 words drawn from common vocabulary in that script. The same randomisation logic runs for all 20, so variation feels natural regardless of language.
- RTL languages set
dir="rtl" on the output textarea automatically. No extra setting is needed. - CJK languages (Chinese, Japanese, Korean) use space-separated words in the pool so the sentence-building logic works consistently. The output reads as plausible filler for layout testing rather than grammatically correct prose.
- The Start with sample phrase checkbox works for all languages. For English it inserts the classic Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet opener; for other languages it prepends a randomly drawn opening sentence from that pool.
- Emoji insertion uses the same 28-item pool regardless of language. The symbols are script-neutral by design.
- Count is clamped to 1 to 500 whatever the mode. The stepper shows 500 for Words and 50 for others, but typing a value directly bypasses that display limit.