Alphabetical Order Sorter (Sort Lines & Lists)

Sort a shopping list, a reading list, names, keywords or whole paragraphs into alphabetical order in one step. The sorter uses your browser’s language-aware collation, so accented letters sort where readers expect them, Korean sorts 가나다, Swedish puts Ö after Z, and numbers inside items can sort by value (file 2 before file 10). You can also sort by length, reverse a list, drop duplicates or ignore a leading “The”.

How to use this tool

1. Paste your list, one item per line, or any text.
2. Choose what to sort: lines, comma-separated items, words, sentences, paragraphs or the letters inside each word.
3. Pick the order and the alphabet rules for the language.
4. Set the options for numbers, articles, duplicates and blanks, then copy the result.

Formula

Items are compared with Intl.Collator(language, { numeric }) — the Unicode Collation Algorithm with the language’s own alphabet

Capitals and small letters sort together (Apple next to apple, in their original order). “Character code order” instead compares raw Unicode values, the way many programs do, so all capitals come before all small letters. Natural number order reads digit runs as numbers. Ignoring articles only affects the comparison; the items keep their wording. Sorting words drops the punctuation between them; sorting sentences joins them with a single space.

Example

The sample list sorts A → Z to Apple, apple, banana, cherry, Éclair, file 2, file 10, The Grapes (one per line): Apple and apple are equal apart from case, so they keep their original order; Éclair sorts with the E words; file 2 comes before file 10 because numbers sort by value. Choosing “Remove duplicates, ignoring case” drops the second apple, and Z → A reverses the list.