About the Slug Generator
Tezmy's Slug Generator turns any title into a short, clean URL slug like “best-free-tools-for-students-2026”. It removes punctuation and emoji, converts accented letters (é → e, ü → u, ß → ss), replaces & with “and”, and joins words with dashes or underscores. You can remove small words like “the” and “of” for shorter URLs, set a maximum length that never cuts a word in half, and convert many titles at once, one per line.
Updated October 2026
How to use the Slug Generator
- 1Type or paste a title. Add more titles on new lines.
- 2Choose dash or underscore, and lowercase.
- 3Optionally remove small words or set a maximum length.
- 4Copy the slugs.
What makes a good URL slug
- Short and readable: 3–6 words is usually plenty.
- Lowercase words joined with dashes: best-free-pdf-tools.
- The main keyword included, without stuffing.
- No dates or numbers that will go out of date, unless they matter.
Dashes or underscores?
Use dashes. Google treats a dash as a space between words, so free-pdf-tools reads as three words. Underscores join words together in some systems. Underscores are fine for file names and code, and the tool offers both.
Accents and other languages
Accented letters are turned into plain ones (café becomes cafe, Müller becomes muller) and special letters like ß become ss, so URLs stay simple to type and share. Punctuation and emoji are removed, and & becomes “and”.
Bulk slugs for many pages
Paste a list of titles, one per line, to get a slug for each: handy when setting up a new blog, an online shop's product pages or a batch of redirects. Set a maximum length to keep every URL tidy without cutting words in half. Everything runs in your own browser, so your data is never uploaded, and it works on phones, tablets and computers with nothing to install.
Slugs and SEO
Google uses the words in a URL as a small ranking hint and shows them in results, so a readable slug like /merge-pdf builds trust and helps people choose your link. Keep slugs stable once a page is live, and write a matching title and description with the Meta Tag Generator.
Use it anywhere
Everything runs in your own browser, so nothing you paste is uploaded or logged. It works on phones, tablets and computers with nothing to install, and there's no sign-up. For text that goes inside a web address, the URL Encoder & Decoder is the one to use, and the Case Converter changes capitals first.
Features
- Handles accents and special letters
- Dash or underscore separators
- Optional stop-word removal
- Max length without cutting words
- Bulk: one slug per line
- Instant results
Frequently asked questions
What is a URL slug?
It's the readable part of a web address that identifies a page, like “word-counter” in tezmytools.com/word-counter.
Dashes or underscores?
Use dashes. Google treats a dash as a space between words, but reads words joined by underscores as one word.
Should I remove words like “the” and “and”?
Often yes. Shorter slugs are easier to read and share. Keep them when removing them would change the meaning.
How long should a slug be?
Short and descriptive: usually 3–6 words. Include your main keyword and leave out dates if the page might be updated later.
What happens to accented letters?
They're converted to plain letters (café → cafe, Straße → strasse) so the URL works everywhere without encoding.
Should I change the slug of an existing page?
Only if you really need to. Changing a URL can lose its Google ranking unless you add a 301 redirect from the old address to the new one.
Are numbers allowed in slugs?
Yes. Numbers are kept, like top-10-tools, because they're safe in URLs.
Does it work for WordPress permalinks?
Yes. Paste your post title, copy the slug and paste it into the permalink field.