Capitalize First Letter
First-letter capitalization gives a piece of text a single capital at its very start. This tool capitalizes the first character of your text and lowercases everything after it, acronyms and later sentences included, which suits short labels, list items, and single phrases rather than paragraphs of several sentences.
Capitalize First Letter examples
| Case | Input | Output |
|---|---|---|
| Phrase | hello world | Hello world |
| Text typed in all caps | THE QUICK BROWN FOX | The quick brown fox |
| Apostrophe and hyphen | don't stop-believing | Don't stop-believing |
| Accented letter | élan vital | Élan vital |
| Acronyms and later sentences are lowercased | the NASA launch. it is today. | The nasa launch. it is today. |
Capitalize First Letter rules
- The first character of the whole text is capitalized.
- Every letter after it is lowercased, including acronyms and the first letters of later sentences and lines.
- If the text starts with a space, a number, or punctuation such as a quotation mark, nothing is capitalized.
- Spacing and line breaks are kept.
How capitalize first letter differs from sentence case
Capitalize First Letter gives the whole text one capital, at the start, and lowercases the rest. Sentence case capitalizes the start of every sentence and keeps all-caps acronyms on mixed lines, so "the NASA launch. it is today." becomes "The NASA launch. It is today." Try the same text in the Sentence Case Converter.
How to use
Type or paste a phrase or label.
Press Capitalize First Letter to give it one capital at the start. Pasted text converts at once.
Copy the result. For several sentences, use sentence case instead.
When to use Capitalize First Letter
Product and UX writers
Single labels, buttons, and menu items in sentence-style capitalization.
Data cleanup
A single field, such as a description or a category name, typed in all caps.
Writers
One-line captions and list items.
FAQ
Paste the sentence into the editor above. The first character becomes a capital and the rest of the text becomes lowercase.
This tool lowercases everything after the first character, acronyms included. The Sentence Case Converter keeps words that are entirely in capitals when the line also has lowercase letters.
Nothing is capitalized, because the first character is the quotation mark. The Sentence Case Converter skips opening quotes and capitalizes the first letter inside them.
No. Only the first character of the whole text is capitalized. Sentence case capitalizes the start of each sentence.
The conversion runs in your browser, so your text is not uploaded to a server to be converted.