Text to Morse Code

Translate text into Morse code in your browser, with slashes marking word gaps.

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About Text to Morse Code

Morse code turns letters and numbers into patterns of short and long signals - dots and dashes - and although it is well over a century old, it endures because it needs almost nothing to send: a light, a sound, a tap, a flag. Translating text into Morse is a staple of amateur radio, of scouting and survival training, and of anyone building a project that flashes or beeps a message. The part that a good translator has to get right is spacing, because Morse relies entirely on gaps to be readable. A gap between letters is different from a gap between words, and running them together produces something no one can decode. This tool separates letters with a space and words with a slash, which is the widely used written convention.

Work through the input

Each letter and digit is looked up in the standard International Morse table and replaced with its sequence of dots and dashes.
Letters within a word are separated by a single space, which represents the short gap a sender leaves between letters.
Words are separated by a slash, the conventional written mark for the longer gap between words.
Common punctuation - full stop, comma, question mark and others - has its own Morse sequence and is translated too.
Line breaks in the input are preserved, so a multi-line message stays multi-line.

When text to morse code is useful

Preparing a message to flash or beep

The dots and dashes map directly to short and long signals, and the slashes tell you where to leave the long word gaps.

Learning the code

Translate familiar words and read off the patterns; the visible letter and word spacing makes the structure clear.

Check the output

Only characters with a defined Morse sequence are translated; anything without one is dropped, since Morse has no way to represent it.
Case does not matter, because Morse makes no distinction between upper and lower case.
The output is written Morse using dots, dashes and slashes; turning it into actual sound or light timing is a separate step.
Spacing is the whole game - the single space between letters and the slash between words must be kept for the reverse translation to work.
Rare symbols and non-English letters have no standard Morse and are omitted.

Questions about Text to Morse Code

What do the slashes mean?

They mark word gaps. A space separates letters within a word, and a slash separates words - both are needed to decode it back.

Does case matter?

No. Morse has no case, so uppercase and lowercase produce the same code.

What about punctuation?

Common marks like the full stop, comma and question mark have Morse sequences and are translated. Rare symbols are dropped.

Can I turn this into sound?

This gives you the written dots and dashes. Converting those to audio or light timing is a further step.