The Filipino variant is the only reason this tool is worth shipping. Latin placeholder text is a commodity and a hundred sites generate it.
What nobody ships is placeholder text with the word lengths real copy has. "Nakakapagpabagabag" is eighteen characters. A column that fits lorem ipsum comfortably can break on the real thing — and catching that before the copy arrives is the entire job of placeholder text.
So the difference is reported as a figure rather than a feeling: average word length in each mode.
The classic opening is off by default. "Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet" is what makes text recognisable AS placeholder — right when showing a draft, wrong when measuring a column.
Because Latin placeholder text is shorter than most languages a layout will actually hold, and Filipino is noticeably longer. “Nakakapagpabagabag” is eighteen characters. A column that fits lorem ipsum comfortably can break on the real copy — and catching that before the copy arrives is the entire job of placeholder text. The page reports the average word length in each mode so the difference is a figure rather than a feeling.
Because that opening is what makes placeholder text recognisable AS placeholder text. That is exactly what you want when showing a draft to somebody, and exactly what you do not want when you are measuring whether a column works. It is a switch, off by default. When it is on it replaces the first sentence rather than being added to it, so the length you asked for is the length you get.
Deliberately. The same options always produce the same text, so adding a paragraph does not reshuffle the ones above it. A generator that regenerates on every keystroke makes a layout impossible to compare against itself. Use Shuffle when you actually want different text.
No, and it should not. The words are ordinary Filipino vocabulary in random order — placeholder text that reads as sentences invites being read, which distracts from the layout it is meant to be testing. It has the right word lengths, the right punctuation rhythm and no meaning.
It is scrambled Latin, derived from a first-century BC text by Cicero with words cut and altered until it stopped making sense. That is why it works: it has the texture of language without being readable. The Filipino variant here is built on the same principle rather than being a translation of it.
One long word decides whether a column needs hyphenation or more width — and lorem ipsum never shows you that.
Placeholder text that reads as sentences invites being read, which distracts from the layout it is meant to be testing. The right word lengths, the right punctuation rhythm, and no meaning.
Placeholder text carries no meaning by design. The Filipino variant is ordinary vocabulary in random order — it exists for its word lengths, not to be read. Output is deterministic: the same options give the same text until you shuffle. Nothing you type here is sent to our servers — the calculation runs entirely in your browser.
