How to pick a good nickname

Say it out loud. A good name is easy for friends to call out and easy to spot in a busy chat.

Leave out personal details. Your full name, birth year, school or town make you easy to identify.

Avoid look-alike characters. Mixing 0 and O, or 1, l and I, makes you hard to find and add as a friend.

Think long term. Slang ages fast. A word that will still feel right in a year or two saves you a rename.

Check before you commit. See whether the name is taken on the service you use, and whether it means something odd in another language.

Getting the most out of each style

Cute names pair soft adjectives with animals and snacks. Cool names mix colors and weather with nouns like wolf or ranger. Short names are easy to remember but often taken, so allow numbers and symbols for a few variations. Type your name or a favorite thing into the word box to mix it into the results. Lock the names you like, generate again, and only the others change.

Gamertag length limits: characters or bytes?

Every game and app sets its own rules. Many count characters, some count bytes. Plain English letters and digits take 1 byte each, but accented letters take 2 bytes in UTF-8, and Korean, Japanese or Chinese characters usually take 2 bytes in older double-byte encodings and 3 in UTF-8. Many services also block spaces, symbols or emoji. Read the sign-up rules first, then paste your pick into the length and byte checker below to compare all three counts.

About the word lists

TextDesk combines adjectives, nouns, prefixes and suffixes that we chose ourselves. There are no brand, character or celebrity names, and a blocklist filters rude or unfortunate combinations. Random combinations can still be odd now and then, so give your favorite a quick read before you use it.

Could someone else already be using my nickname?

Yes, the names are random combinations, so someone may already have one. Check availability on the service you use. Allowing numbers and symbols makes a clash less likely.

Why does a game count my name differently?

Games use different counting rules. Compare the character, UTF-8 and double-byte counts, and if they still disagree, follow the game's own rules.

Where are my favorites saved?

Only in this browser's local storage. Nothing is sent to a server, so favorites do not sync to other devices.

How are couple names made?

The generator takes pairs that belong together, like salt and pepper or sun and moon, and gives both halves the same prefix or suffix.

Title Case vs Capitalized Words

Capitalized Words starts every word with a capital letter. Title Case follows common headline style: short articles, conjunctions and prepositions such as a, and, of and in stay lowercase unless they are the first or last word. Style guides differ on details, so give important headlines a final read.

Sentence case

Everything becomes lowercase, then the first letter of each sentence and each new line is capitalized. Proper nouns such as names and places will need a quick manual fix.

Uppercase to lowercase

Paste text that was typed with Caps Lock on and press lowercase to turn every capital into a small letter, or Sentence case to also start each sentence with a capital. Names and places will need their capitals back.

Lowercase to UPPERCASE

Press UPPERCASE to capitalize every letter, for example for headings, labels or product codes. Numbers, symbols and letters without case are left as they are.

Title Case in short

Title Case capitalizes the main words of a headline and keeps short words such as a, the, of and in lowercase unless they come first or last. For a live result as you type and the exact list of small words, use the Title Case converter.

One sentence, five styles

Here is what each button does to the same text, a well-known guide to the moon AND the stars. These are the converter's own results.

Style · Result

Sentence case · A well-known guide to the moon and the stars

lowercase · a well-known guide to the moon and the stars

UPPERCASE · A WELL-KNOWN GUIDE TO THE MOON AND THE STARS

Title Case · A Well-known Guide to the Moon and the Stars

Capitalized Words · A Well-Known Guide To The Moon And The Stars

Two differences are easy to miss. Title Case keeps to and the lowercase in the middle of a line, while Capitalized Words capitalizes every word. And a hyphenated word counts as one word in Title Case (Well-known) but as two in Capitalized Words (Well-Known).

How to change case in three steps

Paste or type your text in the box. It stays in this browser, and nothing is uploaded.

Press a style. The text in the box is replaced with the result.

Press Copy to put it on your clipboard, or Undo to go back one step.

Common mistakes

Acronyms lose their capitals. Every style except UPPERCASE starts from lowercase, so NASA images of the moon becomes Nasa Images of the Moon in Title Case. The Title Case converter has an option to keep words typed in all caps, such as NASA.

Abbreviations end a sentence. Sentence case capitalizes the letter after a period and a space, so see e.g. the notes below becomes See e.g. The notes below. Fix the word after e.g. or i.e. by hand.

Each line is its own title. Title Case treats every line separately, so the last word on each line is capitalized. Join the lines first if they form one headline.

Does it work with other alphabets?

Yes. Any script with upper and lower case, such as Greek or Cyrillic, is converted. Others are left as they are.

Can I undo a change?

Yes. Use Undo right after a conversion to restore the previous text.

How do I change uppercase to lowercase?

Paste the text and press lowercase. Choose Sentence case instead if each sentence should still start with a capital letter.

Can I change case in Word or Google Docs?

In Microsoft Word, select the text and press Shift+F3 to cycle through lowercase, UPPERCASE and Capitalize Each Word. In Google Docs, use Format, Text, Capitalization. This page works in any browser and adds Sentence case, Title Case and more.

How long should a password be?

A 12-character password using all four character sets has about 78 bits of entropy. For important accounts, use 16 or more. Every extra 10 bits makes brute-force guessing roughly 1,000 times harder.

Passphrases

A passphrase strings together random common words. The list has 1,483 everyday English words, so each word adds about 10.5 bits. Five words give about 53 bits, easier to type and remember than a short jumble of symbols. A number from 0 to 99 at the end is worth about 6.6 more bits.

Good habits

Use a different password for every site.

Keep them in a password manager and turn on two-factor authentication.

If a site blocks symbols, make the password longer instead.

Are generated passwords logged?

No. They are created in your browser and never sent or saved. Close the page and they are gone.

What does entropy mean?

It measures how many guesses an attacker would need, as a power of two. Higher is stronger.

What to include in your request

Instead of “make a total”, write something like “add C2:C100 for rows where A2:A100 says Delivered”, naming the condition column and the result column. Made-up values are fine; you do not need real customer or transaction data.

What formulas does it handle?

Everyday functions such as SUMIF, COUNTIF, IF, IFERROR, VLOOKUP and INDEX/MATCH on cell ranges. Formulas that read other files or web addresses, macros, named ranges and references to other sheets are not supported in this trial. Functions that only exist in Microsoft 365 may not work in older Excel.

Google Sheets mode

Choose Google Sheets to also use Sheets functions such as QUERY, FILTER, ARRAYFORMULA and REGEXEXTRACT. Functions that pull data from other files or the web, such as IMPORTRANGE, IMPORTXML, IMAGE and GOOGLEFINANCE, are never put in the answer.

Check before you copy

Make sure the ranges in the example match your sheet, then paste the formula into a new cell or a copy of the file. Depending on your regional settings, Excel may expect semicolons instead of commas between arguments. This page does not run Excel for you.

Privacy and limits

Your input and result are not saved in browser storage or the address bar. Nothing is sent until you give consent and press the button. Changing or clearing the input cancels the request on this page, but it does not undo anything already sent. If the usage limit is reached or the connection fails, the fixed examples still work.

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Do the examples cost anything or call the AI?

No. The fixed examples are part of the page and do not call the AI.

Does Google Sheets use the same formulas as Excel?

Mostly, but not always. Pick Google Sheets in the menu so the answer can use Sheets-only functions like QUERY and ARRAYFORMULA and avoid Excel-only ones.

Is the answer always right?

No. The AI can misread a range or condition. Nothing is run here, so test the formula in a copy of your file.

Is everything processed on my device?

The examples are. AI requests are separate: after consent, what you type and your choices are sent through Cloudflare to Anthropic.

Why does it say the limit was reached?

The free AI helper has a daily usage limit to keep costs in check. The examples keep working; try the AI again the next day.

What counts as a word?

TextDesk uses your browser's built-in language rules to split text, so contractions like don't count as one word and numbers count as words. Hyphenated words such as well-known are split into two, which matches how most word processors count.

Reading and speaking time

Reading time assumes about 238 words per minute, a common estimate for adult silent reading of non-fiction. Speaking time uses the pace you set, 150 words per minute by default, which suits a calm presentation. Time yourself once and adjust the pace for a closer estimate.

Character limits to know

Meta descriptions are usually cut around 155 to 160 characters.

Many application essays cap at 250, 500 or 650 words.

Text messages split after 160 plain characters, or 70 with emoji or non-Latin letters.

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Is my text stored on a server?

No. Counting runs in your browser, and autosave only uses this browser's local storage. Use Clear when you are done on a shared computer.

How are emoji counted?

Each visible symbol counts as one character, even emoji built from several code points.

Why does my count differ from another tool?

Tools disagree on hyphens, numbers and line breaks. TextDesk follows the Unicode word rules built into your browser.

Fixing text copied from a PDF

PDFs break lines at the edge of each visual line, so pasted text arrives in short fragments. Remove line breaks joins every line with a single space. To keep paragraphs, process one paragraph at a time.

Cleaning a list

Copy a spreadsheet column and each cell becomes a line. Remove duplicates keeps the first occurrence and drops later repeats. Combine it with Sort A to Z for a tidy, unique list in two clicks.

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How many lines can it handle?

Everything runs in your browser, so tens of thousands of lines usually take under a second.

How are numbers sorted?

Numerically, so 2 comes before 10.

Unicode-safe Base64

Text is converted to UTF-8 before encoding, so accented letters, Hangul and emoji decode back exactly. If another tool's output looks garbled, it probably used a different character set.

Naming conventions

camelCase: JavaScript and Java variables

PascalCase: classes and React components

snake_case: Python and SQL columns

kebab-case: URLs, CSS classes and file names

CONSTANT_CASE: environment variables and constants

Input can be in any of these styles or plain words. Existing camelCase boundaries are detected automatically.

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JSON formatting fails

Usually a missing quote or a trailing comma. The error message shows where parsing stopped.

Multiple lines?

Naming and slug conversions run per line. Encoding treats the whole input as one block.

What do the flags do?

g finds every match instead of the first one, and i ignores case. m makes ^ and $ work on each line, s lets the dot match line breaks, and u treats Unicode characters such as emoji as single characters.

Where can I use the pattern?

Patterns here follow JavaScript. They usually behave the same in VS Code search and Google Sheets REGEXMATCH, but Python, Excel and databases each have small differences, so test again in the tool you will use.

Watch out for slow patterns

Nested repeats such as (a+)+ can become extremely slow on some inputs. This page runs each test in a separate worker and stops it after one second, so your browser never freezes.

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Do the examples and the tester cost anything?

No. They run only in your browser and never call the AI.

Is my test text sent to the AI?

No. Only your request (or the regex to explain) is sent. The test text stays on your device.

Will the regex work in Python or Excel?

Often, but not always. This tool targets JavaScript, so check again in other environments.

What if the AI regex is wrong?

Do not use it blindly. Test it on text that should and should not match. For important validation, a regex alone may not be enough.

The Title Case rules this tool applies

The first and last words are always capitalized.

Articles (a, an, the), coordinating conjunctions (and, but, or, nor, for, so, yet) and short prepositions (as, at, by, in, of, on, per, to, up, via, vs) stay lowercase in the middle of a title.

Every other word gets a capital first letter and lowercase after it. That includes verbs such as Is and Are, pronouns such as It, and prepositions of four or more letters such as With, From and About.

The first word after a colon or a dash (—) is capitalized. You can turn this off.

Acronyms typed in capitals (NASA) and words with a capital inside (iPhone) are kept as typed. If the whole title is in capitals, it is treated as Caps Lock text and rewritten.

Each part of a hyphenated word follows the same rules, as in Step-by-Step.

URLs and e-mail addresses are left alone, and each line is converted separately.

Examples

Input · Title Case result

the lord of the rings: the return of the king · The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King

HOW TO WRITE A GOOD HEADLINE · How to Write a Good Headline

a beginner guide to NASA missions · A Beginner Guide to NASA Missions

state-of-the-art tools for step-by-step learning · State-of-the-Art Tools for Step-by-Step Learning

Style guides differ

There is no single correct way to capitalize an English title. AP and APA capitalize prepositions and conjunctions of four or more letters (With, From, About), while Chicago style (18th edition, 2024) lowercases prepositions of four letters or fewer and capitalizes longer ones (About, Between). Because this tool only lowercases the short words listed above, its output is closest to AP and APA, though it does not apply every rule of any style guide. For Chicago style, lowercase four-letter prepositions such as with, from and into by hand. For papers and publications, follow the style your publisher or school asks for.

Title Case vs Sentence case

Title Case capitalizes every major word and is common for books, films and article headlines. Sentence case capitalizes only the first word and proper nouns, like a normal sentence. For UPPERCASE, lowercase, Sentence case and other styles, use the case converter.

Which words stay lowercase?

Only a, an, the, and, but, or, nor, for, so, yet, as, at, by, in, of, on, per, to, up, via and vs, and only in the middle of a title. As the first or last word they are capitalized too.

Will it break acronyms and brand names?

By default, words typed in capitals (NASA) and words with a capital inside (iPhone) are kept as typed. Turn off the first option to rewrite every word.

Can I convert several titles at once?

Yes. Put one title per line and each line is converted on its own. Your text is saved in this browser only.

Where does Lorem ipsum come from?

It is scrambled Latin based on a philosophical text by Cicero from 45 BC. Typesetters have used it for centuries because it looks like real text without distracting readers with meaning. TextDesk mixes words from that vocabulary at random, so each paragraph is different.

How it works

Korea's official Revised Romanization writes each syllable of a given name separately and ignores sound changes between syllables, so 복남 becomes Boknam even though it is pronounced closer to Bongnam. A hyphen between given name syllables is allowed. Family names are not fixed by the rules, and long-standing spellings such as Kim, Lee and Park remain the most common.

Before you use it on official documents

If you already have a passport, keep the spelling it uses. Changing a passport name in Korea requires specific grounds. Treat these results as a reference.

Why does 이 show I and Lee?

The rules give I, but Lee, Yi and Rhee are far more common in practice. Pick the one your family uses.

Two-syllable family names?

Yes. Names such as 남궁, 황보, 제갈 and 선우 are detected automatically.