Morse Code Translator — Text to Morse Code
Type any message and see it translated into International Morse Code — dots, dashes and spaces — character by character.
"H"
"E"
"L"
"L"
"O"
"W"
"O"
"R"
"L"
"D"
How does this calculator work?
Morse code assigns each letter, digit and common punctuation a unique dot-dash sequence (A = .-, B = -..., SOS = ... --- ...). The translator uppercases your text, looks every character up in the ITU table, joins codes with spaces between letters and " / " between words, and shows a character-by-character breakdown of the first 15 characters.
Formula
How this is calculated
International Morse Code represents each character as a short sequence of dots (dit) and dashes (dah). Each dot is one unit long; a dash is three units. Gaps within a character are one unit, gaps between characters are three units, and gaps between words are seven units — shown here as " / ". The code was standardised by the International Telecommunication Union (ITU) and covers the Latin alphabet, digits 0–9, and common punctuation.
The translator converts your text to upper-case, looks up each character in the ITU Morse table, joins character codes with a single space, and inserts " / " between words. Unrecognised characters — accented letters, emoji, most currency symbols — are silently skipped because they have no standard ITU representation.
This tool translates text to Morse only. Decoding Morse back to text requires knowing exact character boundaries; a small timing error shifts every character that follows, making automatic reverse-translation unreliable without those boundaries.
Frequently asked questions
A dot (dit) lasts one unit of time. A dash (dah) lasts three units — exactly three times as long. That ratio is the defining feature of Morse timing and is preserved whether sending by key, light, or audio.
In written Morse, a word gap is shown as " / " (space-slash-space). In transmitted audio it is a seven-unit silence — compared to a one-unit gap inside a character and a three-unit gap between characters.
The ITU Morse table covers A–Z, 0–9 and a limited set of punctuation. Accented letters, emoji and most special symbols have no standard Morse equivalent and are skipped rather than guessed.
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