Capitalize the First Letter of Every Word

Paste text and copy it with a capital on every word, small words such as and, of and the included.

Capitalize the First Letter of Every Word

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Sample Proper Case 36 characters

The Quick Brown Fox And The Lazy Dog

The same text, 1 more way

  • Title Case 36 characters The Quick Brown Fox and the Lazy Dog
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Prepositions that Title Case keeps small
Language rules

A name or an acronym listed here is written exactly as you typed it, in Proper Case and Title Case. The list is kept in this browser and nowhere else.

Next step Which words a title keeps smallA capital on the first word only

All 2 case styles

A capital on words 2

  • Proper Case No word is left out: salt and pepper becomes Salt And Pepper. Each line is done by itself, so a column of names stays a column.
  • Title Case The same capitals, except that short joining words such as a, and, of and the stay small unless they come first or last: Date of Birth, Salt and Pepper.
How this list was compiled

Own work. The 2 styles are the ones this page shows, with a capital on every word first. Every example in a note is kept with its style as a test pair and was produced by the converter this page runs on 2026-10-08; one went in only when the result matched. Start case, initial caps and proper case as names for a capital on every word whatever its part of speech, and the remark that some programming tools call the same result title case, follow the Wikipedia article on letter case (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Letter_case, CC BY-SA 4.0), read 2026-10-08. The small words of the Title Case row are this site's own list, the one the title case converter prints in full. Licence: own work

How it works

This page capitalizes the first letter of every word as you type and makes the letters after it small. Small words get a capital too, unlike title case. The style is called proper case or start case.

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Proper case beside title case

the quick brown fox and the lazy dog becomes The Quick Brown Fox And The Lazy Dog in Proper Case and The Quick Brown Fox and the Lazy Dog in Title Case. The first suits a list of names or a form field; the second is for a headline.

What counts as a word

A hyphen starts a new word and an apostrophe does not: well-known becomes Well-Known, and it's a dog's life becomes It's A Dog's Life. A word that opens with a digit gets no capital: 2nd place becomes 2nd Place.

  • A capital inside a name is lost: MacLeod becomes Macleod. List such names under Protected words to keep them.
  • Acronyms too: the dna test becomes The Dna Test, or The DNA Test with DNA on that list.

Questions and answers

What is proper case?

Proper case gives every word a capital first letter and small letters after it: Date Of Birth. Start case and initial caps are other names for it. Some programming tools call it title case, though real title case keeps minor words small.

How do I convert all caps to proper case?

Paste the capitals. Every letter is made small before the first letters are raised, so ANNA LEE becomes Anna Lee. Nothing has to be lowercased first.

How do I capitalize every word in a sentence?

Type or paste the sentence. Each word gets its capital as you go, accents included: élan vital becomes Élan Vital. Punctuation and spacing stay as typed.

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