Kebab Case Converter

What is the Kebab-Case Converter?

The Kebab-Case Converter rewrites phrases as lowercase words joined by hyphens, turning "User Profile Settings" into "user-profile-settings." The name comes from the hyphens resembling meat on a skewer — and the format itself is the internet's favorite way to write multi-word identifiers where spaces are illegal.

You meet kebab-case constantly without noticing: it powers URL slugs, CSS class names, HTML attributes and npm package names. Search engines even treat hyphens as word separators, which is one reason SEO-friendly URLs use them instead of underscores.

How to use

1. Enter your phrase, title or list of words into the input box.
2. Convert — the tool lowercases everything, strips unsafe characters and joins the words with hyphens.
3. Glance at the slug to make sure no meaningful word was dropped with the special characters.
4. Copy it into your URL bar, stylesheet, filename or package.json.

Common use cases

• URL slugs — building readable, SEO-friendly addresses like /best-wireless-headphones from article titles.
• CSS architecture — naming classes in BEM-style systems, e.g. card__title--large starts from kebab words.
• File naming — creating web-safe filenames without spaces, which break in URLs and terminals.
• Package publishing — naming npm or PyPI-style packages, where lowercase hyphenated names are the norm.

Example

Input:
Best Wireless Headphones 2026

Output:
best-wireless-headphones-2026

FAQs

Why do URLs use hyphens instead of underscores?

Google's crawlers read hyphens as word separators but historically glued underscore-joined words together, so "wireless-headphones" ranks better than "wireless_headphones." Hyphens are also simply easier to read in an address bar.

Can kebab-case be used for variable names in code?

Not in most languages — a hyphen reads as the minus operator, so user-name would parse as subtraction. That is exactly why programmers switch to snake_case or camelCase inside code and keep kebab-case for URLs, CSS and filenames.

What characters get removed during conversion?

Anything that is unsafe or meaningless in a slug: punctuation, quotes, slashes, emoji and symbols. Accented characters are typically transliterated (é → e) so the slug stays ASCII-clean.

Is there a limit to slug length?

The converter itself imposes none, but keep slugs under about 60 characters — longer URLs get truncated in search results and are harder for people to remember or share.