Arabizi (Franco-Arabic) to Arabic script converter

Arabizi, also called Franco-Arabic or the Arabic chat alphabet, writes Arabic with Latin letters and digits: 3 for ع, 7 for ح, 2 for the hamza, 5 for خ, and so on. It is how millions of people text, but it is hard to read for anyone who did not write it and useless in formal documents or search. This converter turns it into Arabic script as you type.

It works in two layers. First, a hand-written dictionary of a few hundred common Egyptian, Gulf and Levantine words and phrases (greetings, pronouns, question words, everyday verbs, food, family, places and names) catches the words whose spelling cannot be guessed from the letters alone, such as "ezayak" (إزيك), "shlonak" (شلونك) or "inshallah" (إن شاء الله). Everything else goes through transliteration rules: number letters, sh/kh/gh/th/dh, long vowels, the definite article with sun letters ("esh-shams" becomes الشمس), hamza seats and word endings such as taa marbuta.

Arabizi leaves out most short vowels and has no fixed spelling, so some words have more than one reasonable reading. Those words are underlined: click one to pick another spelling. The dialect setting changes a few letters (for example g is ج in Egyptian but usually ق in Gulf writing) and which dictionary meaning comes first. Treat the result as a strong first draft and check it before sending anything important.