Remove Accent
Remove accents and diacritics from text to get plain characters. Paste your content, normalize it instantly, then copy the cleaned result.
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What this does
This takes accented text and gives you back the plain version. Letters carrying marks, like é, ñ, ü, or ç, are reduced to their bare forms, e, n, u, and c. Paste your text, click, and the accents are gone while the words stay readable. It is the quick way to turn café résumé into cafe resume.
How to use it
- Paste your accented text into the box on the left.
- Press Remove, and the plain version appears on the right.
- Use Copy to take it, or Clear to start again.
The conversion runs entirely in your browser, so nothing you paste leaves your device.
How it strips the accents
Behind the scenes, the tool separates each accented letter into two parts, the base letter and the mark sitting on it, and then deletes the mark. What is left is the underlying letter on its own. Because it works by peeling the accent off the letter underneath, the result is the natural plain version rather than some random substitute. The base letters, the spacing, and any numbers or punctuation all stay exactly as they were. Only the accent marks are removed.
Where you would use it
Stripping accents solves a lot of practical headaches. Web addresses and slugs are cleaner and more reliable in plain letters, so an accented title is often flattened before it goes into a link. Usernames, file names, and reference codes frequently need to stay within plain characters too. Accents can also throw off searching and sorting, where resume and résumé ought to be treated as the same word. And some older systems and forms simply cannot handle accented characters and will mangle them. For all of those, this gives you a plain, portable version in one click.
A few letters it leaves alone
One honest note on the edges. The tool works by removing a mark from a base letter, so it handles the vast family of accented Latin letters beautifully. A handful of special letters, though, are not built as a base plus a mark, they are characters in their own right. Letters like the German ß, the Scandinavian ø, and the Polish ł fall into that group, so they tend to come through unchanged rather than turning into ss, o, or l. And text in non-Latin scripts, such as Cyrillic or Greek, is not converted into the Latin alphabet, since that is a different task from stripping accents. For everyday accented text, though, it does just what you expect.
Questions people ask
Does it keep the underlying letters?
Yes. It removes only the accent marks, leaving the base letter behind, so ü becomes u and the word stays recognisable.
Why was a letter like ß or ø not changed?
Those are single characters rather than a letter with a mark added, so there is nothing for the tool to peel off and they pass through as they are.
Will it turn Greek or Cyrillic into English letters?
No. It strips accent marks from Latin letters but does not transliterate other alphabets, which is a separate job altogether.
Does it affect numbers or punctuation?
No, those are left untouched. Only the accent marks on letters are removed, so everything else in your text is preserved.
Sarayu is an Assistant Lecturer at Herald College, currently studying Masters of Engineering at KU. She is a Software engineer and educator who enjoys writing, and publishes essays and articles. She helps to review word/text utilities for clarity and usability.