Remove Words From Text
Paste your text, list the words you want gone, and the tool deletes every whole-word match and tidies the gaps it leaves. Tick one box to strip common stop words such as the, of and is as well. Free, no sign-up, and the text never leaves your browser.
How to Use the Word Remover
- Paste your text into the Input text box.
- List the words to remove. Separate them with commas or spaces. If you include a comma anywhere, the list is split at commas only, so a phrase such as "in order to" is treated as one item.
- Add stop words if you want. Tick the box to remove the built-in list of common function words as well.
- Click Remove Words. The result appears with two cards, Words Removed and Words Remaining. Copy it when you are happy.
What Gets Removed, and How the Gaps Are Tidied
Matching ignores capital letters and covers whole words only, so removing the deletes "The" and "the" but leaves "then" and "other" alone. Phrases are matched as a unit, and longer entries are tried first, so "in order to" wins over "in".
After the words are deleted, the tool closes up what is left: runs of spaces become one space, a space left in front of a full stop, comma, semicolon, colon, exclamation mark or question mark is removed, and spaces at the start of a line are dropped. Line breaks are kept.
A Worked Example
Input
I really just wanted a very good result, and honestly it was quite fine. Very simply, it's done.
Words to remove: really, just, very, quite
I wanted a good result, and honestly it was fine. Simply, it's done.
Five words were removed — really, just, very, quite and the capitalised Very — leaving 13 words. The gaps are closed, and because the second sentence began with Very, the next word is given the capital: it now begins with Simply. Always read the result.
What the Stop Words Option Removes
Stop words are the very common function words that carry grammar rather than subject matter. The built-in list has 61 entries: a, an, the, and, or, but, nor, so, yet, of, to, in, on, at, by, for, with, from, up, down, out, off, over, under, into, onto, about, as, is, am, are, was, were, be, been, being, do, does, did, have, has, had, will, would, shall, should, can, could, may, might, must, it, its, this, that, these, those, there, then, than, not.
Input (16 words)
The study of the effects of sleep on the memory of students in a large school.
Stop words removed (9 removed, 7 remain)
study effects sleep memory students large school.
The result is a quick keyword view of a sentence — but it is no longer readable prose. Note that not is on the list, so removing stop words can flip a meaning. Pronouns such as I and we are not on it, and contractions are never cut apart: removing it leaves "it's" untouched rather than stranding "'s", so list the full contraction if you want it gone.
Which Tool Do You Need?
| If you want… | Use |
|---|---|
| A list of words, or common stop words, deleted with the spaces tidied | This page |
| One phrase replaced by another, or deleted, with no tidying | Find and Replace Text |
| Several words each replaced by a different word | Multi Word Replacer |
| Whole lines deleted if they contain a word or pattern | Line Filter |
| Commas, quotation marks and other symbols stripped | Punctuation Remover |
| Words counted with stop words hidden | Word Frequency Counter |
Frequently Asked Questions
- How do I remove specific words from text?
- Paste the text, type the words in the Words to remove box, separated by commas or spaces, and click Remove Words. Every whole-word match is deleted, whatever its capitalisation, and the Words Removed card shows how many went.
- Can I remove a whole phrase?
- Yes. Put commas between your entries and each entry becomes a unit, so "in order to, very" removes the three-word phrase and the single word. Without any comma the box is split at spaces and each word is a separate entry.
- What are stop words, and should I remove them?
- They are the most frequent grammatical words, such as the, of and is. Removing them is useful for keyword extraction, tag creation and quick topic checks. Don't remove them from text meant to be read, as the result is not grammatical.
- Does it remove part of a word?
- No. Matching is by whole word, so removing cat leaves catalog intact. A contraction or hyphenated word also counts as one word, so removing it leaves it's untouched; list it's itself to remove it.
- Does the sentence still start with a capital letter?
- Yes, in the usual case. If the deleted word began a sentence, the first letter of the word after it is capitalised. Proper nouns and acronyms elsewhere keep the capitals they had, and the tool never lower-cases anything, so still read the result.
- How is this different from Find and Replace?
- Find and Replace swaps one phrase at a time and leaves the gaps as they are. This tool takes a whole list of words at once, matches whole words, and closes up the doubled spaces and the spaces before punctuation.
- Is my text uploaded?
- No. The words are removed in your browser and nothing is sent or stored.