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How does this tool work?
This generator turns a title or sentence into a slug, the readable part of a URL such as /gift-ideas-under-20. It strips accents, lower-cases everything and replaces spaces and punctuation with hyphens, giving a short, stable address with no characters that would need encoding.
Accented letters lose their accent (é becomes e, ç becomes c, ñ becomes n) and letters with no decomposed form are transliterated: ß becomes ss, œ oe, æ ae and ø o.
The text is lower-cased; any run of characters that is neither a letter a to z nor a digit (spaces, apostrophes, punctuation, symbols such as £) becomes a single hyphen.
Leading and trailing hyphens are removed: “–Déjà vu–” gives deja-vu.
Non-Latin scripts (Cyrillic, Greek, Arabic, Chinese…) are not transliterated and disappear: a title written only in Cyrillic gives an empty slug.
How to use this tool
Paste the text
A title, sentence or product name in the Text to transform field.
Generate the slug
Click Generate slug.
Shorten if needed
Remove words that add nothing (the, of, for) to keep 3 to 6 meaningful words.
Copy the result
Paste the slug into your CMS URL field.
Use cases
Name files
Get file names without spaces or accents that work on every server and command-line tool.
Generate identifiers
Produce heading anchors (#my-heading) or readable keys for a database or translation file.
Examples
Article title
The £ sign and the dash disappear; the numbers are kept.
Input
Text to transform: 10 Gift Ideas Under £20 – 2026 EditionResult
Slug: 10-gift-ideas-under-20-2026-editionAccents and apostrophes
The apostrophe splits the words and the accents are removed.
Input
Text to transform: Why Café-Crème Isn’t Just CoffeeResult
Slug: why-cafe-creme-isn-t-just-coffeeTips and best practices
- Aim for a short, descriptive slug: Google recommends simple, readable URLs made of words.
- Avoid dates in the slug of content you will update, or the URL will become misleading.
- Changing the slug of a published page changes its URL: set up a 301 redirect from the old address.
- Stop words (the, a, of, and) can be removed by hand; the tool keeps them so as not to change the meaning.
Sources and references
- URL Standard (opens in a new tab), WHATWGPage in English
Frequently asked questions
Why remove accents?
A URL with accents works, but it is encoded as %C3%A9 when copied or shared, which makes it unreadable. A slug without accents stays the same everywhere.
Hyphen or underscore?
The hyphen (-). Google treats it as a word separator, whereas an underscore (_) can be read as part of the word. The tool therefore uses hyphens.
What happens to non-Latin characters?
They are removed, because the tool does not transliterate Cyrillic, Greek or Asian scripts. Enter a Latin version of the title in that case.
Does the slug affect SEO?
Slightly. A clear slug mainly helps people understand the page before clicking; do not change an existing slug just to add a keyword.
Is my text sent to a server?
No. The slug is calculated in your browser.
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