Slug Generator
Turn any title into a clean, lowercase, URL-friendly slug with hyphens.
Free URL slug generator
A slug generator turns a title into a clean, URL-friendly string. ProseTool's slug generator lowercases your text, removes accents and symbols, replaces spaces with hyphens, and optionally strips small stop words — instantly and in your browser. Paste a headline and copy a ready-to-use slug.
Slugs are the readable part of a web address. A tidy slug like "best-writing-tips" tells both readers and search engines what a page is about, while a messy URL full of symbols and capital letters looks untrustworthy and can break when shared. Generating slugs by hand is fiddly; this tool guarantees a valid result every time.
How to use the slug generator
- Type or paste your title into the box above.
- Choose a separator and whether to lowercase and remove stop words.
- The slug updates live in the output field.
- Click Copy slug to use it in your CMS or code.
Features
- Accent folding converts characters like é, ñ, and ü to plain ASCII.
- Symbol removal strips punctuation and special characters automatically.
- Hyphen or underscore separators to match your site's convention.
- Optional stop-word removal for shorter, keyword-focused slugs.
- Live and private — updates as you type and never uploads your text.
Benefits of clean slugs
Clean, descriptive slugs improve both usability and SEO. They make links easier to read and remember, look more credible when shared on social media, and give search engines a clear keyword signal. Consistent slugs also keep a site tidy and prevent the broken links that messy, symbol-laden URLs often cause.
Bloggers, developers, and content teams use slug generators to standardise every new page. Because the tool runs locally with no length limit, you can generate slugs for a single post or a whole content plan without sending anything to a server.
Frequently asked questions
What is a URL slug?
A slug is the part of a URL that identifies a specific page in a human-readable way, for example "free-word-counter" in prosetool.com/free-word-counter/. Good slugs are short, lowercase, and use hyphens between words.
Why use hyphens instead of underscores?
Search engines treat hyphens as word separators but read underscores as joiners, so "word-counter" is seen as two words while "word_counter" can be read as one. Hyphens are the recommended choice for SEO-friendly URLs.
What does "remove stop words" do?
It strips small, common words such as "a", "the", "and", and "of" from the slug. Shorter slugs that keep only the meaningful keywords are cleaner and often better for SEO.
Does it handle accents and symbols?
Yes. Accented characters are converted to their plain ASCII equivalents (é becomes e) and symbols are removed, so the slug is always safe to use in a URL.