What is word splitting?

Word splitting is the process of breaking a string of text into individual words. When you type a sentence or paragraph, words are typically separated by spaces, tabs, or other whitespace characters. Word splitting extracts each word as a separate element, which can then be reformatted with different separators like commas, newlines, or custom delimiters.

This technique is fundamental in text processing, data manipulation, and content formatting. Whether you're preparing data for a spreadsheet, creating lists from paragraphs, or transforming text for programming purposes, word splitting provides the foundation for restructuring textual content.

Tool description

The Word Splitter tool takes any text input and separates it into individual words based on whitespace boundaries. It then reassembles these words using your chosen separator, allowing you to quickly transform paragraphs into lists, convert space-separated values to comma-separated values, or create custom-formatted output.

The tool intelligently handles multiple consecutive spaces, tabs, and newlines, treating them as single word boundaries to produce clean, consistent results.

Examples

Input:

The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog

Output with newline separator:

The
quick
brown
fox
jumps
over
the
lazy
dog

Output with comma separator:

The,quick,brown,fox,jumps,over,the,lazy,dog

Output with custom separator " | ":

The | quick | brown | fox | jumps | over | the | lazy | dog

Features

  • Multiple separator options: Choose from newline, comma, space, tab, or define your own custom separator
  • Whitespace normalization: Automatically handles multiple spaces, tabs, and line breaks as single word boundaries
  • Real-time processing: See results instantly as you type or paste text
  • Custom separator support: Define any character sequence as your word delimiter
  • One-click copy: Easily copy the formatted output to your clipboard

Use cases

  • Creating vertical word lists: Convert a sentence or paragraph into a line-by-line word list for review, editing, or analysis
  • Data preparation for spreadsheets: Transform space-separated text into comma-separated values (CSV) for import into Excel or Google Sheets
  • Programming and development: Generate arrays or lists from text input by splitting words with appropriate delimiters like commas or pipes
  • Content formatting: Restructure text content for different presentation formats, such as converting inline text to bullet-point style layouts
  • Text analysis preparation: Break down text into individual words for word counting, frequency analysis, or linguistic processing