Slug Generator

Written byOleh Soloninupdated 10 September 2026

Text

Separator

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. Search engines take mild hints from it, but the real benefit is that a human can read a link and know where it goes.

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.

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.
Hyphens are the safer default; search engines have historically treated underscores as joining words rather than separating them.

FAQs

Hyphens or underscores?

Hyphens. Google has long treated hyphens as word separators and underscores as joiners, so hyphens are the safer choice for search.

Should a slug include every word of the title?

No. Trimming to the three or four meaningful words keeps links tidy and readable; 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.

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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