Strikethrough Text Generator

This strikethrough text generator crosses out, underlines or slashes through anything you type, such as S̶o̶l̶d̶ o̶u̶t̶, so you can paste it where there is no formatting button: Instagram, TikTok, X, Facebook and Discord names. Pick a line style, copy, and your text never leaves your browser.

How to use the strikethrough text generator

1. Type or paste your text in the box at the top. Every line style updates as you type.
2. Pick a line: Strikethrough crosses the letters out, Underline and Double Underline sit below, and Slash goes through them.
3. Tap Copy and paste it into your caption, bio or comment.

Five lines you can put through, under or over text

All of these work the same way: after each letter the generator adds one combining mark, a zero-width character that is drawn on top of the letter before it. The letter itself never changes.

Which line to pick depends on what you want the reader to feel. A straight strike says “changed my mind” and is the one people recognise instantly. The slash is heavier and reads as a refusal or a ban, so it suits a single word such as n̸e̸v̸e̸r̸. Underline draws attention but, on a phone, can look like a link. The overline is mostly decorative outside maths.

The Wavy Strike (d̴i̴e̴t̴, U+0334) and Crossed Above (w̽r̽o̽n̽g̽, U+033D) styles in the results use the same mechanism with different marks. U+0338 is the same mark mathematicians use to negate a symbol, which is why ≠ decomposes to = plus that slash.

Check for a built-in option first

Unicode lines are a workaround. Wherever an app has real formatting, use it: the result is shorter, searchable, accessible and editable. Here is what the common apps offer:

The Discord fonts page has the full markdown cheat sheet, and the WhatsApp fonts page covers its formatting codes, including the newer lists and quotes.

When Unicode is the only way

Some of the most-used text fields have no formatting at all. There, combining marks are the only way to show a line:

• Instagram: bio, captions, comments and your display name. None of them accept formatting.
• TikTok: bio, nickname, captions and comments.
• X (Twitter): posts, bio and display name have no strikethrough option.
• Facebook: posts and comments. Keep it out of your profile name, which Facebook’s name policy limits to plain letters.
• Discord display names and server nicknames, where markdown is ignored.
• Game chat and profile fields, if they accept Unicode at all.

Usernames and handles on every major platform reject combining marks, so you cannot strike through an @name.

Why the character count doubles

Because every letter gets its own mark, a struck or underlined word is twice as long as it looks. Spaces are left alone, so the total is slightly less than double for a phrase:

Unlike bold or cursive letters, combining marks count as a single unit on X, so the X count matches the character count. An Instagram bio of 150 still only fits about 75 struck letters. The character limits guide covers how each platform counts.

Why the line can look patchy

The line is not one stroke; it is a row of short pieces, one per letter, and the font in the app you paste into decides how long each piece is and how high it sits.

• Gaps between letters. In some fonts the pieces meet edge to edge and form a clean line. In others each piece is a little narrower than its letter, leaving small breaks.
• Breaks between words. This generator leaves spaces unmarked so word gaps stay visible. Some people prefer an unbroken line; if you do, replace spaces with a character such as a hyphen before converting.
• Different heights. The strike sits at mid-letter height, which falls in a slightly different place for capitals and lowercase. All lowercase gives the neatest line.
• Underline collisions. The low line can touch the tails of g, j, p, q and y. Double underline sits lower and collides more. If a word has several descenders, the plain underline usually looks tidier.

Lines on top of other styles

The mark doesn’t care which letter it sits on. If you paste text from another style into the box, the line is added to those characters instead. Copy 𝐒𝐨𝐥𝐝 𝐨𝐮𝐭 from the bold generator, paste it here and choose Strikethrough, and you get 𝐒̶𝐨̶𝐥̶𝐝̶ 𝐨̶𝐮̶𝐭̶.

Results vary more than with plain letters. Fonts position combining marks for ordinary letters, and on a bold or cursive letter the line can sit slightly high or off-centre. Bold serif and bold sans usually work well; cursive and gothic letters are wider and less predictable. Each styled letter plus its mark also costs more on X, where the bold letter counts as two and the mark as one.

Pasting into documents and spreadsheets

In Word, Google Docs or a spreadsheet, use the program’s own strikethrough instead of pasted characters. Unicode lines in a document cause problems you won’t see at first:

• Spell check flags every word, because each letter is followed by an unexpected mark.
• Find and replace stops working, since searching for “sold” will not match S̶o̶l̶d̶.
• You can’t remove the line with a button. The marks are part of the text, so clearing formatting does nothing. Unstyle Text strips them if you’ve already pasted them in.
• Sorting and formulas break in spreadsheets, where a struck number is text rather than a value.

Strikethrough that still makes sense

The most popular use is the joke correction: “I h̶a̶t̶e̶ love Mondays”. It works because the reader sees both words and the change between them. The same trick shows prices (an old $̶4̶0̶ next to a new $25) or a finished to-do item.

Bear in mind what other people actually receive:

• Screen-reader users hear both words without the line. “I hate love Mondays” makes no sense spoken aloud, and an old and new price are read as two prices. Where the meaning matters, say it in words: “was $40, now $25”. Our accessibility guide explains how screen readers handle these marks.
• Search will not find the struck word. Unicode normalization does not remove combining marks, so S̶o̶l̶d̶ does not match a search for “sold”.
• People who copy your text get the marks too, so a struck word pasted elsewhere carries the line with it.

For text that should look small rather than crossed out, such as fine print or a quiet aside, the small text generator is the better fit.

Used for a joke correction or a was-and-now price, a strikethrough text generator works well, as long as the meaning is also clear in plain words.