Slug Generator

Written byOleh Soloninupdated 25 September 2026

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Result

Slughow-to-cook-a-chicken-breast
Length28

From a title to a link that survives being copied

Turn a headline into a URL slug. Transliterates Russian text into Latin characters instead of dropping it.

A slug is the readable tail of a URL: someone can read the link and know where it goes before they click.

Most generators simply delete characters they do not recognise, which turns a Russian headline into an empty slug. This one transliterates first, so «Как приготовить» becomes kak-prigotovit.

How to use

Paste the page title.
Choose the separator — hyphen or underscore.
Copy the slug; its length in characters is shown next to it.

How titles turn into slugs

Accents are stripped, Cyrillic is transliterated, an apostrophe inside a word disappears, and every other run of punctuation or spaces becomes one hyphen.

Every row is output from this page's generator.
Title	Slug	Characters
How to Cook a Chicken Breast	how-to-cook-a-chicken-breast	28
Café déjà vu: 10 tips for 2026	cafe-deja-vu-10-tips-for-2026	29
Report No. 5 — Q3	report-no-5-q3	14
What's a clean URL?	whats-a-clean-url	17
Crème brûlée & Co.	creme-brulee-co	15
Как приготовить куриную грудку	kak-prigotovit-kurinuyu-grudku	30

What this calculator shows

A lowercase slug with words joined by your chosen separator
Cyrillic transliterated into Latin rather than discarded
The finished length, since very long slugs get truncated in listings

What to keep in mind

Punctuation and repeated separators are collapsed to a single character.
Google's URL-structure guidance recommends hyphens rather than underscores between words.

FAQs

Hyphens or underscores?

Hyphens — that is what Google's guidance on URL structure recommends. The generator can use underscores too; the switch is next to the box.

Should a slug include every word of the title?

No. A short slug of the meaningful words reads better; filler words add length without adding meaning.

Can a URL contain Cyrillic directly?

Technically yes, but it is stored percent-encoded, so copying the link produces a wall of %D0 codes. Transliteration avoids that entirely.

What happens to numbers?

They are kept. Digits are valid in slugs and often useful — years, versions and model numbers all belong there.

What about apostrophes and ampersands?

An apostrophe inside a word is dropped, so what's becomes whats rather than what-s. An ampersand goes like any other punctuation: 'Crème brûlée & Co.' becomes creme-brulee-co.

How is Russian transliterated?

With the generator's own simple scheme: ж becomes zh, ш sh, щ sch, ю yu, я ya, and the hard and soft signs vanish. «Ёлка и щука» comes out as elka-i-schuka.

Worked example

A bilingual headline

Input: Привет, мир! Hello World

Output: privet-mir-hello-world

Note: Cyrillic is transliterated, punctuation dropped, spaces become hyphens — a link that still works when pasted into a plain-text email.

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