Gen Z Slang Translator: English to Gen Z and Back

How the Gen Z translator works

The translator swaps phrases using a fixed word list. It is not a chatbot, and it never guesses. There are two directions:

English → Gen Z looks for everyday phrases and swaps in the slang that usually replaces them. "For real" becomes "no cap", "go outside" becomes "touch grass", and "really good" becomes "bussin". There are about 250 of these English patterns.
Gen Z → English does the reverse. It finds slang from a list of 125 terms and replaces each one with a plain meaning, so "that's mid" reads as "that's mediocre".

Longer phrases are matched before shorter ones. "No cap" is read as one phrase, so the "cap" inside it is never translated as "a lie". Any word that is not on the list stays exactly as you typed it, which is why some output comes back only half translated.

Everything happens in your browser. The text you paste is not sent anywhere, and the copy button copies only the result.

What it is good for

Reading a message you half understand. Paste a text from a teenager or a comment thread into Gen Z → English to get a rough plain version, then look up the words that matter in the slang dictionary.
Writing a caption or a joke. English → Gen Z gives you a starting point. Read it before you post. Slang used slightly wrong is funnier to the people who use it than to you.
Learning by contrast. Seeing "honestly" turn into "no cap" shows how much of slang is about tone rather than new meaning.

Where it falls short

A phrase list cannot read context. Slang words often have more than one sense, and the translator gives one meaning per word, usually the most common:

Cooked can mean "in trouble" or "exhausted". The tool gives one reading, whichever fits your sentence or not.
Mid is a put-down, but it is often a joke, used to tease a friend about something everyone else loves.
Delulu is usually a joke about yourself, not a diagnosis.
Irony is invisible to it. "Slay" said flatly after someone spills coffee is not praise.

It also does not know new slang until the list is updated.

Examples

You type	English → Gen Z gives
That was honestly really good.	That was no cap bussin.
That is suspicious, for real.	That is sus, no cap.
You need to go outside.	You need to touch grass.
What's the news?	what's the tea?

You type	Gen Z → English gives
ngl that fit is mid	not gonna lie that outfit is mediocre
bro has no rizz	bro has no charisma
no cap	no lie

Results can differ slightly from these as the list changes.

Want the full meaning?

Each word the translator knows has a full entry with examples, origin and tone in the dictionary. Good starting points are rizz, no cap, bussin and touch grass. For an overview of the whole vocabulary, read the Gen Z slang guide. If you would rather test yourself, try the slang age quiz.