🧹 Cleaning

Remove Punctuation from Text

Punctuation stops keywords from matching and clutters word counts. Strip it all in one click and keep just the words and numbers.

  • 100% free, no limits
  • No sign-up
  • Your data never leaves your browser
  • Results in under a second

Free tool Paste your list — the Remove Punctuation from Text tool does the rest

The example below is already loaded, so you can see exactly what you get. Replace it with your own list and the result updates as you type.

🧹 Doing the whole job? Clean a keyword list → every fix for it, ticked and in the right order

Got a bigger job? The full Notepad runs the same engine on lists of any size — chain this with dedupe, sort and filter, undo any step, and save the whole routine as a recipe for next time.

Example Remove Punctuation from Text tool: before and after

Before
running shoes, size 10 (men's)
After
running shoes size 10 mens

How it works What the Remove Punctuation from Text tool does

Removes commas, brackets, quotation marks and other punctuation, leaving only words and numbers.

3 steps How to use the Remove Punctuation from Text tool

  1. Paste your list into the box above — one item per line. Keyword exports, crawl exports and spreadsheet columns all work.
  2. Check the settings — there are none to set; the result appears straight away.
  3. Copy the result and paste it wherever it needs to go. Nothing is uploaded, so client and confidential data stay on your machine.

Use it to When to use the Remove Punctuation from Text tool

  • Normalise keyword variants that differ only by punctuation
  • Prepare a word list for a word-frequency or topic analysis
  • Clean product names before matching them against a database

FAQ Remove Punctuation from Text tool questions

Is this tool free to use?

Yes. Remove Punctuation runs entirely in your browser below, with no sign-up, no limits, and nothing sent to a server.

Will it remove hyphens inside words?

Yes, all punctuation including hyphens is removed — use Find & Replace first if you need to preserve specific characters.

Pairs well with More Cleaning tools, all free

Stop fixing lists by hand

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