About the Morse Code to Text
This tool converts Morse code to text. Write each letter's dots and dashes separated by a single space, and separate words with a slash or a run of spaces. The decoder looks up each pattern in the International Morse table and reassembles the words, digits and common punctuation marks included.
Both the period and the actual dot character work for dots, and a hyphen or a minus sign for dashes. Extra whitespace is tolerated. The one thing no decoder can guess is where a letter ends, which makes the spacing load-bearing: .- ... reads as AS while .-... is a single unrecognised pattern. Morse copied from a puzzle with the gaps collapsed has no unique reading at all, so restore the spacing before pasting it.
Patterns that match nothing become a question mark so you can spot the mistyped letter. The usual suspects are a dot where a dash belonged, which turns A into N, and one symbol too many, which turns H into 5. The Text to Morse tool produces code in exactly the format this decoder expects, so encoding the word you think it should be and comparing the two strings is the fastest way to find the bad symbol.
How to use
- Paste Morse code, letters separated by spaces and words by slashes.
- Read the decoded text.
- A question mark marks a pattern that was not recognised.
Common questions
- How should words be separated?
- With a slash (/) or three or more spaces. Letters within a word use a single space.
- Can I use dots and dashes or other characters?
- Use . for dots and - for dashes. The decoder is lenient about extra spacing.
- Why is there a question mark in the output?
- A group of dots and dashes did not match any letter, usually a typo.