Remove Accents Tool

About this calculator

Removing accents means stripping the diacritical marks — acute, grave, umlaut, tilde, cedilla and similar signs — from letters so that é becomes e, ü becomes u and ñ becomes n. Technically this is usually done by decomposing each accented character into its base letter plus a separate combining mark using Unicode normalization (NFD), then discarding the combining marks to leave plain ASCII behind.

Developers and content editors use accent stripping to build clean URL slugs from titles written in French, Spanish, German, Turkish or dozens of other languages, to make search and sorting behave consistently regardless of how a user types a query, and to prepare text for older systems, filenames or IDs that only accept plain ASCII characters. It is also common in data-cleaning pipelines that need to match or de-duplicate names across records that were entered with inconsistent accenting.

Paste in any accented text and the calculator returns a plain-ASCII version instantly, with every diacritical mark removed while the underlying letters stay readable.