About Remove Letters
Remove Letters strips every ASCII Latin letter from your text - a through z in both cases - and leaves everything else standing. Digits, punctuation, whitespace and any character from beyond the plain Latin alphabet all pass through untouched, in their original order and spacing. The result updates as you type, so a long paste can be cleaned in one motion.
The letter set is deliberately narrow. Accented letters such as those in French or Turkish are not matched, because they fall outside the plain a-to-z range the rule was built on, and text written in Cyrillic, Greek or an Asian script comes out exactly as it went in. For plain English text the effect is complete: every word is reduced to whatever digits and punctuation surrounded it.
This is the tool for pulling the non-letter skeleton out of mixed content - the figures and separators from a log line, the numbers from a product code, the punctuation pattern from a sentence. What it is not is a selective filter: there is no way to keep certain letters, remove only vowels or only consonants, or drop whole words rather than the letters inside them. Each of those jobs belongs to a different page.
How to use Remove Letters
- 1 Paste or type the text into the panel.
- 2 Watch the output, which is recalculated live on every keystroke.
- 3 Check that the surviving characters are the ones you wanted to keep.
- 4 Copy the result, which preserves the original order and spacing of everything that was not removed.
Frequently asked questions
Why did some accented letters survive?
Because the rule matches the plain ASCII letters a to z only. A letter with a diacritic is a different character to the matching engine, so it passes through while its unaccented counterpart is removed. Text in other scripts is left entirely alone.
Does it remove numbers or punctuation as well?
No. Digits, punctuation, spaces and line breaks all survive, which is what makes the tool useful for extracting them. If you want the opposite - letters only - a different removal tool is needed for each of the other character classes.
Can I remove only some letters, like the vowels?
Not here. This page removes every letter unconditionally. Vowel removal and consonant removal each have their own dedicated pages, and removing the letters of one specific word is not offered anywhere on the site.
Will the spacing of my text change?
No. Characters are deleted in place and nothing else is touched, so the spaces between words remain and the gaps where letters used to be stay open. Collapsing those gaps is the job of a separate whitespace tool afterwards.
Free, online, and private
Free to use
Remove Letters is completely free. There is no account to create, no login, and no hidden charge or usage limit.
Runs online in your browser
It is a free online tool that runs entirely in your browser. Nothing to download or install — open the page and start using it right away.
Your data stays private
All processing happens locally on your device. Your input is never uploaded, stored, or tracked, so it never leaves your browser.
How Remove Letters behaves in detail
These are the specifics of this implementation — the exact ranges, defaults and fixed settings you are working with.
| Parameter | Value |
|---|---|
| Input | one text panel, recalculated live as you type |
| Rule | ASCII Latin letters - a to z and A to Z - are removed in a single pass |
| Case handling | both upper and lower case are covered by the same rule, with no separate setting |
| What survives | digits, punctuation, whitespace, and every character outside the ASCII Latin range |
| Accented text | letters with diacritics are not matched, so an accented letter survives while its plain counterpart is removed |
| Output | the remaining characters in their original order and spacing |
Compiled from the implementation of this tool and checked against it by itoolnet.
What Remove Letters does not do
Knowing the edges of a tool saves more time than another list of its features. These are the cases where it will not do what you might expect.
- The rule matches ASCII letters only. Accented and non-Latin letters pass through untouched, so cleaning a French or Turkish line removes some letters and keeps others, and text in Cyrillic, Greek or an Asian script comes out exactly as it went in.
- The result joins what is left without any spacing options. Removing letters from words can glue punctuation to numbers, and there is no setting to also drop the leftovers, collapse the gaps, or keep whole words that would become empty.
- The operation runs one way with no filtering by letter. Every letter goes, whatever its position or frequency - there is no way to remove only vowels, only consonants, or the letters of one chosen word, each of which needs a different tool.
Tested and documented by itoolnet, the team that builds and maintains this site.