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One word per line

Split text so that every word is on its own line.

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Reverse each wordReverse the letters inside each word while keeping the word order.Reverse word orderReverse the order of the words on each line (keeping the letters intact).Word wrap textWrap long lines to a maximum width without breaking words.Add line numbersPrefix every line of your text with a sequential line number.Duplicate each lineRepeat every line a chosen number of times.Quote each lineWrap every line in quotes, with an optional trailing comma — handy for code arrays.Remove line breaksStrip or replace line breaks to turn multi-line text into one line.Remove line numbersStrip leading line numbers (1. 2) 3:) from every line.

Open One word per line and you get an answer straight away, with no account to create. You will find it under Transform & clean, with Reverse each word and Reverse word order for the neighbouring cases.

How to use it

  1. Open the tool — no signup or install needed.
  2. Enter your input or adjust the available options.
  3. Get your result instantly, then copy or download it.

Frequently asked questions

What does One word per line do?

Split text so that every word is on its own line.

When would I actually use this?

Cleaning up a paste before it goes anywhere: stripping duplicates from a list, normalising case, removing accents for a filename, or sorting lines.

What is the most common mistake?

Sorting text as if it were ASCII. Accented letters land after Z in a byte sort, which puts "Zurich" before "Émile" and produces a list no reader will accept.

How is One word per line different from Reverse each word?

They sit next to each other but answer different questions: Reverse each word is the one to open when you need it to reverse the letters inside each word while keeping the word order. Pick whichever matches what you're starting from — both are free.

Is there a tool for the next step?

Reverse word order is the closest one after this: Reverse the order of the words on each line (keeping the letters intact).

What else is worth having open alongside it?

Word wrap text and Add line numbers — they come up in the same task often enough to be worth a second tab.

Where do the figures come from?

Transformations use the browser's Unicode-aware string handling, so case changes and sorting respect the locale rather than byte order. Nothing is truncated: what comes out is the whole of what went in.

Further reading

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How-toNumbering the Lines of a Text for a Review with Several PeopleNumbering starts at 1 and cannot be set to 0, the alignment is spaces rather than zeros, and the remover undoes eight of the eleven separators without touching the indentation. What it still cannot do is tell your numbers from its own.ExplainerWhere a Line May Break: The Unicode Algorithm Behind Every Wrapped Paragraph"Break at spaces" fails in most of the world's writing systems. UAX #14 gives every character a line-break class; we looked ours up in Unicode 17.0.0 and ran a conforming implementation over no-break spaces, soft hyphens, zero-width spaces, URLs, Japanese and Thai.How-toCleaning Messy Text: The Order of Operations That Actually MattersStrip tags before decoding entities, trim before deduplicating, collapse whitespace last. Three orderings run in Node, a nine-step pipeline in the right sequence, and the invisible characters — U+00A0, U+200B, U+FEFF — that survive every naive cleanup.GuideConverting Between List Formats Without Losing Data: The Quoting Rules Nobody ReadsTurning a newline list into a comma list is trivial until an item contains a comma. RFC 4180's quoting rules, why a CSV field may contain a newline, why European spreadsheets use the semicolon, and what an empty item does to a round trip — every case run and printed.GuideStripping Markdown: What Plain Text Loses, and What a Regex Gets WrongA link becomes text with its destination deleted, a nested list loses its hierarchy, a table becomes a row of words. Then the technical half: markdown has no single spec, and a regex stripper mangles a filename, a multiplication sign and the inside of a code block — all shown against a real parser.ExplainerWord Frequency and Zipf's Law: We Counted Six Books in Six Languages and Fitted the SlopeThe nth most common word appears about 1/n as often as the first. We counted six public-domain books, printed rank × frequency, fitted log frequency against log rank, and got slopes between -1.02 and -1.08 in all six languages — plus the two places the law breaks.