Slug Generator
Turn any title into a clean, SEO-friendly URL slug in one click.
What is it?
A URL slug is the last, human-readable part of a web address — the “free-word-counter” in morefreetools.com/tool/free-word-counter. A slug generator takes a title or sentence and converts it into a slug that is safe to use in links: lowercase letters, numbers, and hyphens between words, with no accents, spaces or special characters. Our slug generator works entirely in your browser and supports all major European languages. It removes diacritics, normalizes whitespace, filters punctuation and lets you choose between hyphen and underscore separators. The output is ready to paste into your CMS, framework router or URL structure.
How to use it
- Type or paste the title you want to convert in the input box.
- Pick a separator — hyphen is the SEO default, underscore is sometimes used in file systems.
- Toggle the options (lowercase, strip stop words, keep numbers) to match your style.
- The slug appears instantly below. Use “Copy” to send it to the clipboard.
- Paste the result into your CMS, router or URL field.
Why use this tool
A clean slug makes a URL easier to read, easier to share and easier to rank. Search engines use words inside the URL as a light ranking signal, and users are more likely to click a link they can actually parse. Doing it by hand is risky: accented characters can break links, spaces get encoded as %20, and punctuation like question marks or ampersands have special meaning in URLs. Our generator normalizes the text using Unicode rules, so accented words like “città” become “citta”, emojis are stripped, and punctuation is removed cleanly. Developers save time by batch-converting headings; bloggers get consistent URLs across posts; e-commerce teams build predictable product links. Because the tool runs locally, you can paste sensitive internal titles without worrying about them ending up on a server.
Frequently asked questions
What makes a good URL slug?
A good slug is short, descriptive, lowercase, and uses hyphens between words. It avoids accents, spaces and stop words where possible, and reflects the page topic.
Hyphen or underscore — which is better for SEO?
Hyphens are the standard for SEO. Google treats hyphens as word separators, while underscores are treated as part of a single token.
Will the tool remove stop words like “the” or “and”?
Only if you enable the option. Stop-word removal keeps slugs short, but can hurt clarity for titles where those words matter.
Does it handle accents like “é” or “ñ”?
Yes. Accented characters are converted to their base Latin form using Unicode normalization, so “café” becomes “cafe”.
Can I generate a slug from a URL?
Yes. Paste the URL in and the tool will extract a slug from the last segment or use the whole text if it does not look like a URL.