Text to Slug
Type or paste a title — get a clean, URL-safe slug instantly, live as you type. No button needed.
Your slug updates automatically as you type — lowercase, hyphen-separated, no special characters.
Slug
Text to Slug — Generate Clean URL Slugs Instantly
This slug generator converts any title or text into a clean, URL-safe slug as you type — lowercase, hyphen-separated, with accents and special characters stripped out.
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Why slugs matter for SEO
- Readability — a clean slug like
/best-coffee-makers-2026is easier for humans to read and share than a random ID or query string. - Keyword signal — including your target keyword in the URL slug is a minor but well-established SEO signal.
- Consistency — most CMS platforms (WordPress, Shopify, Ghost) auto-generate slugs, but manual control avoids awkward auto-generated results from titles with punctuation or numbers.
- Avoiding broken links — spaces and special characters in URLs need to be encoded; a proper slug avoids that entirely.
How slugs are generated
The text is lowercased, accented characters are converted to their plain equivalents (e.g. "café" → "cafe"), anything that isn't a letter, number, space, or hyphen is removed, and remaining spaces are converted to single hyphens with leading/trailing hyphens trimmed.
All conversion runs entirely in your browser. Your text is never sent to any server. See also: text case converter · FAQ.
Frequently Asked Questions
A slug is the readable, URL-safe part of a web address that identifies a specific page — for example, in fastwordcount.com/word-counter, “word-counter” is the slug. Slugs are typically lowercase with words separated by hyphens.
Yes — accented letters are converted to their closest plain-ASCII equivalent (for example “é” becomes “e”), since most platforms expect slugs to use only standard characters.
Hyphens are the widely recommended convention for URL slugs — search engines treat hyphens as word separators, while underscores are sometimes treated as joining characters rather than spaces.
Yes — there's no button to click. The slug field updates live as you type or paste your title above.