The Sauce

Many years ago, I translated a giant list of ~100,000 English words into 9 other languages. I was a bit naïve thinking I could use this for sentence translations, but the resulting dataset wasn't completely useless. By joining on the translation results and using fuzzy matching I could do all sorts of unexpected things – like find similar words.

Welcome to Text Sauce.


Many years ago, I translated a giant list of English words into 9 other languages. I was 17, naïve and thought that I could do word-for-word translation to create a translation service.

Needless to say, this asinine adventure was rather fruitless, but the resulting dataset was entertaining. By joining on the translation results and using fuzzy matching I could do all sorts of odd things – like find similar words across languages and do comical there-and-back-again translations.
This site aims to make that list useful by providing some manner of browsing it and also by exposing various APIs. The first of these APIs are geared towards generating mock content (such as those provided by https://www.lipsum.com).