Paste a text and get it back without accents or diacritics: “café” becomes “cafe”, “Zürich” becomes “Zurich”, “São Paulo” becomes “Sao Paulo”. It works with Spanish, Catalan, French, Portuguese, German and most Latin alphabets.
It is useful when a system does not accept accents: URLs, file names, usernames, codes and old forms. It runs in your browser, so your text is never uploaded.
What exactly this tool does
The text is decomposed into base letters plus combining marks, and the marks are removed. Letters stay as they are, so only the accent, dieresis, cedilla or tilde disappears. Case is kept unless you choose to convert to lowercase.
Tick Keep ñ if you work with Spanish text and want to leave the ñ as it is while the other accents go.
Equivalence table
| Original | Result |
|---|---|
| á à â ä ã å | a |
| é è ê ë | e |
| í ì î ï | i |
| ó ò ô ö õ | o |
| ú ù û ü | u |
| ñ | n (or ñ if kept) |
| ç | c |
When to remove accents (and when not to)
Remove them for URLs, slugs, file names, email addresses, usernames, hashtags and any field that rejects non-ASCII characters. Do not remove them from text that people will read: in many languages an accent changes the meaning, as in “si” and “sí”, or “año” and “ano”.
Step by step
- 1Paste or type your text in the left box.
- 2Choose options: keep ñ or convert to lowercase if you need them.
- 3Copy the result from the right box.
Examples by option
| Input | Options | Result |
|---|---|---|
| Canción | none | Cancion |
| Año Nuevo | none | Ano Nuevo |
| Año Nuevo | Keep ñ | Año Nuevo |
| Éxito Rápido | Lowercase | exito rapido |
Limitations
Removing accents is one way only: the tool cannot put them back. Letters that are not accented versions of Latin letters, such as ß, æ, ø or Cyrillic and Greek characters, are not changed. Do not use it to translate between languages.
Frequently asked questions
How do I remove accents from a text?
Paste the text in the left box. The version without accents appears at once on the right, ready to copy.
Which characters does this tool remove?
Acutes, graves, circumflexes, tildes, dieresis, cedillas and other combining marks on Latin letters.
Why remove accents from a text?
For URLs, slugs, file names, usernames and old systems or forms that do not accept special characters.
Can I keep the ñ when removing accents?
Yes. Tick “Keep ñ” and the ñ stays while the other accents are removed.
How do I make a slug from a title with accents?
Remove the accents, convert to lowercase and replace the spaces with hyphens. This tool does the first two steps; use Find and Replace for the hyphens.
Does it work with languages other than Spanish?
Yes, with any language that uses Latin letters with diacritics, such as French, Portuguese, German, Catalan or Italian.
Can I get the accents back afterwards?
No. The information is lost, so keep the original text if you need it.
Does it change letters that are not accented vowels?
It also removes marks from consonants like ç and ñ (unless kept), but it leaves letters without marks unchanged.
Does it help avoid double SMS charges?
Often yes. Many phone networks use a shorter limit for messages with accented characters, so removing them can keep a message in a single SMS.