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Glossary

What is Back-Translation?

Translating output back to the source language to spot meaning drift — a cheap sanity check for critical strings.

In more depth

Useful for slogans and legal phrases; meaning that survives the round trip is probably intact.

Why it matters for your website

Understanding Back-Translation helps you make better decisions when taking a WordPress site multilingual — from choosing URL structures and engines to controlling costs. Transxlate handles the mechanics (language URLs, lang attributes, caching, hreflang on Pro) so terms like this become settings, not engineering projects.

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