Remove Hyphens from Text
Instantly strip hyphens and dashes from your text, URLs, and data lists for clean, readable content.
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Clean Result
Checking this prevents words from sticking together (e.g. clean-text becomes clean text).
Why Use the Hyphen Remover?
Convert URLs to Text
Web URLs and slugs often use hyphens instead of spaces (like my-blog-post). Instantly convert these back into readable, normal sentences.
Data Normalization
When importing data into systems that misinterpret hyphenated strings (like Excel turning them into formulas or dates), strip them out safely here first.
100% Secure
Your files and text are sensitive. Our tool uses native browser JavaScript to scan and remove hyphens, ensuring your data is never uploaded.
Frequently Asked Questions
By default, removing hyphens from a word like state-of-the-art would produce stateoftheart — merging everything into one unreadable string. Enabling "Replace with space" converts each hyphen into a regular space instead, giving you state of the art. This is especially useful when cleaning up hyphenated product names, slugs like best-running-shoes-2024, or exported data from CMS platforms where hyphens are used as word separators.
This tool specifically targets the standard hyphen-minus character (-, U+002D). It does not remove underscores (_), en dashes (–, U+2013), or em dashes (—, U+2014), which are distinct Unicode characters. Text copied from Word or Google Docs often contains en or em dashes instead of regular hyphens — if your hyphens aren't being removed, that's likely why. For underscores, use our dedicated Underscore Remover. For all symbols at once, try the Remove Symbols hub.
No hard limit exists. Because the processing runs entirely in your browser using your device's own RAM and CPU, you can paste tens of thousands of words, entire CSV exports, or large bulk datasets and they will be processed almost instantly. Performance is only bounded by your device's available memory — not a server timeout or file size restriction.
Yes — this is one of the most common use cases. URL slugs like how-to-remove-hyphens-from-text can be converted to how to remove hyphens from text in one click using the "Replace with space" option. Similarly, hyphenated filenames like project-report-final-v2.pdf become project report final v2.pdf. It's also handy for developers converting kebab-case variable names to plain readable text for documentation or UI display.
Yes. Pasting 123-456-7890 and removing hyphens produces 1234567890 — a clean digit string ready for database imports, CRM systems, or any platform that requires unformatted phone numbers. Make sure to leave "Replace with space" unchecked so the digits aren't split by spaces. This works equally well for bulk lists of phone numbers, making it a quick way to normalize an entire contact export in seconds.
Completely private. The Hyphen Remover runs 100% client-side — your text is processed locally by your browser's JavaScript engine and never transmitted to or stored on our servers. You can confirm this yourself by opening your browser's DevTools Network tab while the tool runs; you'll see zero outbound data requests. This makes it safe to use with confidential contact lists, internal documents, or proprietary data exports.