Letter Remover

Removes every occurrence of one or more specified letters from your text, case-insensitively, useful for cleaning up data, creating word puzzles, or stripping a specific character from a large block of text. A free online tool from Staaarter, right in your browser.

Runs locallyUpdated 2026-07-23

Overview

Introduction

Stripping a specific letter out of a large block of text by hand is slow and easy to get wrong, especially when the letter is common.

It runs entirely client-side, so nothing you paste is ever uploaded to a server.

What Is Letter Remover?

A letter remover that deletes every occurrence of one or more chosen letters from your text, matching case-insensitively.

It runs entirely client-side as part of this site's String Tools collection, so nothing you paste is ever uploaded to a server.

How Letter Remover Works

The letters you enter are split on commas, trimmed, and validated as single characters, then every character in the input is filtered out if its lowercase form matches any of them.

The transformation happens synchronously in JavaScript the moment you type, with no network round trip involved.

When To Use Letter Remover

Use it to clean unwanted characters out of pasted data, build a word puzzle that omits certain letters, or see how text reads with a letter removed entirely.

It's a fast way to get the answer without opening a code editor, a REPL, or writing a one-off script just to check.

Features

Advantages

  • Handles multiple letters in one pass via a comma-separated list.
  • Case-insensitive matching removes both cases without extra input.

Limitations

  • Only removes single letters, not whole substrings or words.

Examples

Removing one letter

Input

banana

Output

bnn

Removing 'a' deletes all three lowercase 'a' occurrences.

Best Practices & Notes

Best Practices

  • List every letter you want gone in one call rather than running the tool multiple times.

Developer Notes

The letter list is parsed into a lowercase `Set` for O(1) membership checks, then the input is rebuilt with `[...input].filter(char => !lowerSet.has(char.toLowerCase()))`, which keeps the implementation correct for Unicode code points beyond the BMP.

Letter Remover Use Cases

  • Cleaning a specific unwanted character out of pasted data
  • Building a lipogram or word puzzle that omits certain letters
  • Testing how legible text remains with a letter removed

Common Mistakes

  • Entering a multi-character string instead of a single letter.
  • Forgetting that removal is case-insensitive and removes both cases.

Tips

  • Use it alongside a vowel or consonant remover for more targeted letter-frequency experiments.

References

Frequently Asked Questions