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Sort Words — Free Online Text Tool

Sort Words — Alphabetize Words in Any Text

Paste a sentence, a paragraph or a space-separated list and click SORT WORDS A-Z to get every word in alphabetical order, one per line. SORT WORDS Z-A sorts in reverse. Sorting runs in your browser; nothing is uploaded.

How it works

  1. The text is split into words at any whitespace — spaces, tabs and line breaks.
  2. Words are sorted alphabetically using your browser's language-aware comparison.
  3. The result is written one word per line.
banana apple cherry date

becomes

apple
banana
cherry
date

Sorting rules worth knowing

  • Case is handled naturally. The comparison is locale-aware, so apple, Banana and cherry sort as a person would expect, rather than putting every capitalised word first as a plain byte sort does.
  • Accented letters sort next to their base letter — école sorts with the e's, not after z.
  • Numbers are compared as text, character by character, so 10 sorts before 9. Pad numbers with leading zeros (09, 10) if you need numeric order.
  • Punctuation stays attached. cherry, and cherry are different words; remove commas first if the text is a comma-separated list.
  • Duplicates are kept. Use REMOVE DUPES afterwards for a list of unique words.

Common uses

  • Alphabetize a tag or keyword list pasted from a CMS or spreadsheet.
  • Build a vocabulary list from a paragraph: sort, then remove duplicates.
  • Normalise lists for comparison — sort two lists the same way, then compare them with Text Diff.
  • Tidy CSS classes or flags you collected from several places.

Sorting whole lines instead?

If each line is an item that contains spaces — names, addresses, sentences — use SORT A-Z on the same page, or the Sort Lines tool. That keeps each line intact instead of splitting it into words.