Morse Code Converter
Encode text to Morse or decode Morse back to text, covering letters, digits and common punctuation, with slashes between words.
How to Use
- Pick a direction
Text to Morse encodes, Morse to text decodes; decoding accepts · or • and — or – interchangeably.
- Paste the content
Type straight into the encoder, or paste a dot-dash sequence into the decoder — spacing and slashes can be whatever you have.
- Check the result
Unrecognised fragments are called out separately and marked with a question mark so you can find the mistyped part.
FAQ
What separates the parts of Morse?
Spaces separate the dots and dashes inside one letter, a slash separates letters, and a double slash separates words. So SOS is «... --- ...» and SOS HELP is «... --- ... / .... . .-.. .--.».
Why can Chinese not be encoded?
Morse was designed for the telegraph in the 1830s and every symbol maps to a Latin letter, so there is no Chinese equivalent and Han characters pass through unchanged. Chinese telegraph code is a separate system.
Is SOS really three letters?
No. SOS is a standalone distress signal defined in the 1906 International Radiotelegraph Convention, chosen to be unmistakable over noise, and only later treated as three letters to memorise.
Is Morse code encryption?
No, it is a public encoding that anyone with a reference table can read. Its historical value was that telegraph lines were noisy and narrow, so letters had to be compressed into audible form. Real secrecy needs modern cryptography.