Title Case Converter
Capitalize the principal words in a string while keeping short connecting words lowercase.
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About Title Case Converter
Title case is the convention used for headlines, book titles, and section headers in English. Every principal word (nouns, verbs, adjectives, adverbs) is capitalized; short connecting words like articles, conjunctions, and short prepositions stay lowercase — unless they're the first or last word, in which case they're always capitalized.
When to use it
- Formatting blog post or article headlines
- Producing book or chapter titles in publishing contexts
- Standardizing the look of menu items or page headers
- Generating consistent display strings from raw input
How it works
The input is split into words on whitespace. The first word, the last word, and every word that is not in the built-in stop-words list (a, an, the, and, but, or, of, in, on, at, to, for, by, with, etc.) is capitalized. Whitespace between words is preserved exactly.
Examples
Stop words ('the') stay lowercase mid-sentence
the quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog
The Quick Brown Fox Jumps Over the Lazy Dog
First/last word always capitalized
a tale of two cities
A Tale of Two Cities
Frequently asked questions
- Which words are kept lowercase?
- Common articles (a, an, the), short conjunctions (and, but, or), and short prepositions (of, in, on, at, to, for, by, with, from). The exact set follows standard American style guides.
- What if I want every word capitalized?
- Use a simple per-word capitalizer (Pascal Case or similar). Title case follows English style rules; for true 'first letter of every word capitalized', use a different tool.
- Does it handle acronyms?
- Acronyms entered in uppercase (NASA, FBI) become title-cased (Nasa, Fbi). Re-capitalize them by hand if needed; preserving acronyms automatically requires a dictionary.