Free Alphabetize List Tool

Sort Any List in a Second

Paste your list into the box, choose how to sort it, and the result appears underneath, ready to copy. It works for names, words, titles, tags, reading lists, product names, email addresses, glossary terms or anything else that can go one item to a line.

If your list is on a single line separated by commas, switch the List format to "Comma separated". The sorted result comes back in the same format.

Sort Orders

• A to Z. Standard alphabetical order.
• Z to A. Reverse alphabetical order.
• Shortest first and Longest first. Sorts by the number of characters, and breaks ties alphabetically. Handy for finding the longest title or for tidy columns.
• Reverse the list. Flips the current order without sorting. Useful for turning an oldest-first list into a newest-first one.

Options That Make Lists Behave

• Ignore capital letters. On by default, so "apple" and "Banana" sort the way a person would expect, not with all capitals first. Turn it off to treat uppercase and lowercase letters as different.
• Sort numbers by value. On by default, so "item 2" comes before "item 10". Turn it off for a strict character-by-character order, where "item 10" comes before "item 2".
• Remove duplicates. Keeps the first copy of each item. It respects the capital-letters setting, so with "Ignore capital letters" on, "Apple" and "apple" count as the same item.
• Remove empty items. Drops blank lines.
• Trim spaces around items. Removes spaces at the start and end of each item so they do not affect the order.
• Number the sorted list. Adds "1.", "2." and so on in front of each item.

How Alphabetical Order Works Here

The tool uses your browser's built-in language-aware sorting. That has two effects you can see:

• Accents sort like a dictionary. "école" sits near "e", not after "z".
• Results depend on your browser's language. A few languages order letters differently, such as treating some letter pairs as one letter. The tool follows what your browser reports, so if you need the rules of a specific language, check a small sample.

It does not apply any special rules for names. A list of people is sorted by whatever you type first, so to sort by last name, type the names as "Last, First" before you paste them. Many style guides put reference lists in alphabetical order by author's last name, and each one has its own rules for details such as articles at the start of titles, so check yours for formal work.

Common Uses

• Reference lists and reading lists, once you have formatted each entry.
• Glossaries and indexes.
• Guest lists, team rosters and class lists.
• Keyword and tag lists, with duplicates removed.
• Cleaning up pasted data: sort, remove duplicates and empty lines in one pass.
• Spotting repeats. Sorting puts identical items next to each other.

Need to flatten a list into one line first? Use the remove line breaks tool. To count how many items or words you have, use the word counter.

Your List Stays in Your Browser

The sorting happens on your device. Nothing you paste is uploaded, saved or sent to an AI.

What This Tool Cannot Do

It sorts the text you give it and cannot understand it. It will not know that "The Hobbit" should be filed under H, that "St." means "Saint," or that "McDonald" and "Macdonald" are close, because those depend on the rules of your style guide or catalog. If a list needs those rules, adjust the entries before you sort.

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• Word counter
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