Lorem Ipsum Generator
Generate placeholder lorem ipsum paragraphs for designs and mockups.
Written by Anil Gautam · Updated
How many words are in each lorem ipsum paragraph?
Every paragraph is the same block of four sentences, 38 words and 253 characters, opening with "Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet". A blank line separates the paragraphs, so totals grow in fixed steps: words are 38 times the paragraph count, and characters are 255 times the count minus 2. The default of 3 paragraphs gives 114 words and 763 characters.
Work back from the length of the real copy. A page that will carry an 800-word article needs 21 paragraphs for 798 words, and a 500-word post needs 13 for 494. The arrows on the Paragraphs box run from 1 to 50, and 50 paragraphs come to 1,900 words.
For a box that needs a set length, cut one paragraph at a sentence boundary. Its sentences are 56, 48, 39 and 107 characters long, so the first sentence alone fills 56 characters, the first two 105 and the first three 145, counting the spaces between them.
Where does lorem ipsum come from?
The opening words are a scrambled excerpt from De finibus bonorum et malorum, a work of philosophy Cicero wrote in 45 BC. Words were cut and altered until the passage stopped making sense: "dolorem ipsum" (pain itself) lost its first two letters and became "lorem ipsum". Later sentences in the block, such as "Integer vitae ligula sed ipsum placerat finibus", are filler assembled from Latin words in the same style.
What should you check when the real copy arrives?
Because the paragraphs are identical, the output cannot show how a layout handles a one-line paragraph beside a long one; delete a sentence or two from some blocks after pasting if your design needs that contrast. Word length is another blind spot. The longest word in the block is consectetur, at 11 letters, so long product names, email addresses and URLs that might overflow a narrow column go untested. Text Repeater can fill a layout with your own sample line instead.
The output is plain text without HTML tags. If you need markup, the Markdown to HTML Converter wraps each blank-line-separated block in a paragraph tag. Before launch, search your pages for "lorem": the word appears twice in every paragraph, at the start and near the end, so a case-insensitive search finds any leftover block. The text is generated in your browser, and Copy lorem ipsum copies every paragraph at once.