Remove Accents
Remove accents and diacritics from any text quickly and automatically. Paste or type your content and get a plain version without accent marks, ideal for systems, programming, URLs, databases and text normalization.
What does removing accents mean?
Removing accents means turning letters with diacritical marks into their plain base letters. For example, "é" becomes "e", "ç" becomes "c", "ñ" becomes "n" and "ü" becomes "u", so "café" turns into "cafe" and "jalapeño" into "jalapeno".
How to remove accents from text
- Paste or type the text.
- Click Remove.
- See the result without accents.
- Copy it if you need to.
Why remove accents?
- Normalizing data in systems and databases
- Creating clean, SEO-friendly URLs and slugs
- Processing text in programming
- Avoiding mismatches in searches and filters
- Compatibility with legacy systems and plain ASCII
Which characters are converted?
The tool removes the marks that languages such as French, Spanish, Portuguese, German and Italian add to letters: acute (á, é), grave (à, è), circumflex (â, ê), tilde (ã, ñ), diaeresis or umlaut (ä, ü) and cedilla (ç). Characters that are separate letters rather than accented ones, such as ß, æ or ø, are kept as they are.
How it works
The text is converted to the Unicode NFD normalization form, which splits each accented letter into its base letter plus a combining mark. The combining marks are then removed, leaving only the base letters.
TIP: Use unaccented text only in technical contexts. When writing for people, keep the correct accents to avoid ambiguity and misspellings.
Frequently asked questions
How do I remove accents from a text?
Paste the text into the box, click Remove and the unaccented version is ready to copy.
Are the cedilla and tilde removed too?
Yes. ç becomes c and ñ becomes n, just like letters with acute, grave and circumflex accents or umlauts (á, è, ê, ü).
Why remove accents?
To create URLs, slugs and file names, normalize data in spreadsheets and databases, and send text to systems that do not accept special characters.