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Capitalize Each Word

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How to use Capitalize Each Word

What the tool does, how to run it, and what to expect from the result.

How to capitalize the first letter of every word

Paste your text into the input box. Every word is found and its first letter is uppercased, while the remaining letters are left exactly as you typed them.

For lowercase input this gives you a clean title-style line in one step. For mixed-case or all-caps input you will need to lowercase the text first, because the tool never lowers a letter, it only raises the first one of each word.

  • Lowercase the text first if it contains all-caps or mixed-case words.
  • Paste the text into the input box.
  • Read the capitalised version in the output panel.
  • Fix brand names, acronyms, and hyphenated compounds by hand, and lowercase the short words if you are following a style guide.
  • Press Copy result to take the title away.
Tips

Getting a better result out of Capitalize Each Word

Specific settings and thresholds, not general advice.

  • Only the first letter of each word is changed. The rest of the word is left exactly as typed, so "iPhone" becomes "IPhone", "eBay" becomes "EBay", and a word already in all caps stays in all caps. Lowercase the text first if you want clean title case.
  • This is not AP or Chicago title case. Every word is capitalised, including "a", "of", "the", and "and", which those style guides leave lowercase inside a title.
  • The word pattern includes the straight apostrophe, so "don't" becomes "Don't" rather than "Don'T". The letter after the apostrophe is not capitalised, so "o'brien" becomes "O'brien" and needs a manual fix.
  • A word boundary sits before every letter that follows a non-letter, so hyphens split words for this purpose: "state-of-the-art" becomes "State-Of-The-Art".
  • Accented and non-Latin words are capitalized correctly, so a word starting with an accented E gets its first letter capitalized and not its second. The rest of the word is left as you typed it.
Limits

What Capitalize Each Word does not do

The honest boundary, so you do not lose time finding it yourself.

  • It does not lowercase the remainder of a word, so it cannot repair SHOUTED text on its own.
  • It follows no style guide, so short words in titles are capitalised too.
  • It has no exception list for brand names, acronyms, or Roman numerals.
  • It capitalises the letter after a hyphen, which is wrong for most hyphenated compounds.
At a glance

Who Capitalize Each Word is for

A quick way to understand who this helps, what it solves, and where it connects next.

Best fit

Writers, students, editors, marketers, and developers working with text.

Ideal for

Quick, private text work without installing an app or trusting a server with your content.

FAQ

Common questions

Short answers for the questions people usually have before trying a utility like this.

Does my data get uploaded anywhere?

No. Everything runs locally in your browser and nothing is sent to a server.

Is this free to use?

Yes. It is completely free, with no account, no signup, and no usage limits.

Do I need to install anything?

No. The tool runs entirely in the browser, so there is nothing to download or install.

Why is "iPhone" coming out as "IPhone"?

The tool uppercases the first letter and leaves everything after it untouched. It has no list of brand names, so any word with a deliberate internal capital or a lowercase first letter will be changed. Fix those few words by hand afterwards.

Can I use this for a headline in AP or Chicago style?

Not without editing. Both style guides keep short conjunctions, articles, and prepositions lowercase unless they open or close the title, and this tool capitalises them all. Use it as a starting point and lowercase the small words yourself.

How do I fix text that is in ALL CAPS?

This tool alone will not help, because it leaves the trailing letters as they are and your text will stay in caps. Lowercase the text first in your editor, or run it through the Sentence Case Converter and then capitalise the words you need.

What happens to hyphenated words?

Each part is treated as a separate word, so "state-of-the-art" becomes "State-Of-The-Art". That is usually not what you want in running text, so review any hyphenated compounds in the output.

Does it work with accented and non-English text?

Partly. It recognises letters from any script, but the word-boundary rule behind it is ASCII-based, so a word that starts with an accented letter can end up with the wrong letter capitalised. Check non-English input by eye rather than trusting the result.

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