WordBench tool
Slugify
Turn any text into a clean, URL-friendly slug.
Enter one title per line to produce a slug for each. Accented letters are flattened, punctuation is dropped, and spaces become single hyphens.
About the slugify
The WordBench slug maker converts a title or phrase into a clean, URL friendly slug. It lowercases the text, replaces spaces with hyphens, strips punctuation, and flattens accented letters, leaving a tidy string that is safe to use in a web address, a filename, or an identifier.
A good slug is readable, stable, and free of characters that need escaping in a URL. Writing one by hand for every post or page is repetitive and easy to get slightly wrong. Slugify applies the same rules every time, so your URLs stay consistent across a whole site.
Accented and non English letters are transliterated to their closest plain equivalents where possible, and anything left that is not a letter, number, or hyphen is removed. Multiple separators collapse into a single hyphen, and leading or trailing hyphens are trimmed away.
Who uses it
Worked example
Start with the headline "Acme & Globex: A 2026 Partnership!".
Slugify returns acme-globex-a-2026-partnership. The ampersand and colon are dropped, the exclamation mark is removed, spaces become single hyphens, and the whole thing is lowercased into a slug you can paste straight into a URL.
Frequently asked questions
What is a slug?
A slug is the human readable part of a URL that identifies a page, usually made of lowercase words separated by hyphens. It comes from a title but is stripped of spaces, punctuation, and anything that is awkward in a web address.
Why replace spaces with hyphens instead of underscores?
Search engines and most style guides favor hyphens as word separators in URLs because they are treated as spaces between words. Underscores can join words together for indexing purposes, which is usually not what you want in a slug.
Does it handle accented characters?
Yes. Accented letters are reduced to their base form where possible, so a title with characters like é or ü produces a plain ASCII slug rather than dropping those letters entirely.
What happens to numbers and symbols?
Numbers are kept because they are valid and often meaningful in a URL. Symbols and punctuation are removed, and any resulting run of separators is collapsed into a single hyphen.