Slug Generator

How it works

• Paste the title or phrase you want to turn into a slug.
• Accents and punctuation are removed and spaces become hyphens or underscores.
• Copy the clean slug for use in URLs, filenames, or permalinks.

Use cases

What makes a good URL slug

A slug is the human-readable part of a URL that identifies a page. The conventions are near-universal for good reasons: lowercase, because paths are case-sensitive on most servers and /About vs /about becoming two pages is a genuine duplicate-content problem; hyphens rather than underscores, because search engines have long treated the hyphen as a word separator while underscores can join words together; and no accents or punctuation, because those force percent-encoding that turns a clean URL into a wall of %C3%A9.

Length matters more than people expect. A slug should carry the topic, not the whole headline — three to six meaningful words is the usual sweet spot. Dropping filler words like "a", "the", and "of" makes a slug both shorter and clearer.

Slugs and stability

The most important rule about slugs is not how you write them but that you stop changing them. A published URL accumulates links, bookmarks, and search history; changing the slug breaks all of it unless you add a redirect. That is why experienced publishers leave dates and volatile words out of slugs — "/best-tools-2026" ages badly and tempts an edit a year later.

This generator normalizes accents (café becomes cafe), strips punctuation and symbols, collapses the gaps into single separators, and trims the ends so you never ship a slug with a trailing hyphen. If you need the opposite — safely encoding a value that must keep its original characters — our URL Encoder Decoder does percent-encoding instead.

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