Slug to Text Converter

Turn a URL slug back into readable text with proper spacing and capitalisation.

Reversing a slug

A slug like how-to-make-a-slug is built for URLs, but sometimes you need it back as readable text — to generate a page title from a slug, label a link, or make sense of a URL. This converts a slug into a readable phrase, replacing the hyphens or underscores with spaces and capitalising sensibly.

Paste a slug and it becomes readable text.

A helpful guess, not a perfect reverse

It is worth being honest that turning a slug back into text is inherently a best guess, because slugging is lossy — it strips capitalisation, punctuation and any characters that were flattened, and that information cannot be perfectly recovered. So a slug becomes a clean, title-cased phrase, but the original might have had a comma, an acronym in caps, or a subtitle that is gone. For generating a reasonable heading or label from a slug it is exactly right; just expect to tidy the occasional word by hand.

Slug to Text Converter FAQ

What does it do to a slug?

It replaces hyphens or underscores with spaces and capitalises the words, turning the slug into a readable phrase.

Is it a perfect reverse of slugging?

No — slugging loses capitalisation and punctuation, so the result is a clean best guess you may need to tidy slightly.

Is my text uploaded?

No. The conversion happens in your browser.

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