How to alphabetize words
- Paste your text into Your text.
- Choose the Order: A → Z or Z → A.
- Tick Remove duplicates to keep each word once.
- Pick an Output style: Spaces, One per line or Commas.
- Copy the sorted words.
What it does and when to use it
Sorting words by hand is slow and easy to get wrong once a list is longer than a dozen items. This tool is useful whenever you have words and need them in order:
- Spelling and vocabulary lists. Teachers and learners can turn a reading passage into an ordered word list for study.
- Tags and keywords. Put a messy set of tags in order, with duplicates removed, before pasting them into a CMS.
- Glossaries and indexes. Get a first sorted draft of the terms in a document.
- Word games. Check a set of letters or answers quickly.
For a list of distinct words with their counts, try unique words or word frequency. To remove repeated words but keep the original order, use remove duplicate words.
How it works
The tool first finds the words: runs of letters and digits, which may contain an apostrophe or hyphen inside. Everything else, such as commas, full stops and brackets, is dropped.
If Remove duplicates is ticked, a word is skipped when the same word, ignoring case, has already been seen.
The words are then sorted with your browser’s language-aware comparison. Case and accents are ignored, so “Émile” sits next to “eagle”, and numbers inside words are compared by value. Z → A simply reverses the A → Z result. Finally the words are joined with a space, a line break or a comma and space. Nothing is sent to a server.
Worked examples
These outputs come from the tool’s own function.
Mixed case. “zebra Apple mango banana apple” gives apple Apple banana mango zebra. Both spellings of apple are kept, lowercase first.
Duplicates removed, one per line. The same text with Remove duplicates and One per line gives Apple, banana, mango, zebra. The first spelling, “Apple”, was kept.
Accents and numbers. “item10 item2 item1 Émile eagle” with Commas gives eagle, Émile, item1, item2, item10.
Limits and tips
- Alphabetical order follows general rules, not the special rules of one language, such as Swedish placing å after z.
- Duplicate removal does not ignore accents, so “resume” and “résumé” both stay.
Frequently asked questions
Does it sort words or whole lines?
Is the sort case-sensitive?
Why does item2 come before item10?
Which copy is kept when I remove duplicates?
What happens to punctuation and numbers?
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