How to Use the Strikethrough Text Generator
Crossing out text here is a type-and-go affair. The engine appends a Unicode stroke to every letter the moment you type it, so you can judge the effect in real time and grab the style that fits the joke, correction or dramatic reveal you have in mind.
Enter your phrase
Type into the input box — Cancelled, a wrong prediction, or yesterday's hot take all make good candidates. Output updates per keystroke with no button to press.
Pick your strike weight
Decide between the single long stroke, the shorter slash-style strike and the heavier double line, then note which card combines it with a decorative border.
Copy the card
Press the copy button beside your favorite. The clipboard receives the exact crossed-out string, stroke marks and all.
Paste and confirm
Drop it into Discord, Slack or your social app. If the platform renders combining marks oddly in its title field but fine in messages, use the style where it displays cleanly.
Readability tip: Strike marks stack on top of accents in dense scripts, which can look cluttered at small sizes. For words longer than ten characters, the single-line styles stay the most legible.
Frequently Asked Questions
Below are the questions that come up most often about crossing out text, from how the Unicode stroke behaves to what happens on older devices.
- It appends a Unicode combining stroke — U+0336 for the long line, U+0335 for the shorter slash variant — immediately after every character you type. Your device's font renders that mark overlapping the previous letter, which is what creates the through-the-middle effect without any HTML or image.
- The text itself never loses its marks, but a few apps re-render text in fields that strip or reorder combining characters, such as some legacy bio editors and old smart-TV keyboards. Paste into the main message or caption box first; if a specific field eats the effect, that field is the limitation, not the style.
- Discord supports markdown double tildes for strikethrough in messages, but that only works where Discord parses markdown — and it does nothing in usernames. The Unicode versions from this page work in both places because the line is part of the characters themselves.
- The single strike uses one long combining stroke per letter and is the most universally rendered. The double style layers two parallel strokes, which reads heavier and is best for short words. There are also slash and tilde variants that produce a rougher, hand-corrected feel.
- Yes. Copy a style here, then paste it in iMessage, WhatsApp, Telegram or any mobile keyboard field. The marks are standard Unicode, so no special app or keyboard is needed on either platform.
- It does. Every combining stroke is a separate character to most counters, so a ten-letter phrase can roughly double in length. Check the final count where the platform shows it before posting inside tight limits like X posts or YouTube titles.
- Most screen readers spell out the base letters and may announce each combining mark separately, which gets noisy fast. Keep struck phrases short and avoid using strikethrough for essential information that someone using assistive technology must not miss.
- There is no hard cap in the tool — conversion is instant JavaScript running in your browser. In practice, combining marks are best kept to words and short lines; whole paragraphs become hard for readers to parse.
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Related Formatting and Text Tools
Strikethrough is one of several line-and-mark effects on this site — these are the closest companions:
What Makes a Great Strikethrough Text Generator?
Any converter can hammer a combining mark after each letter. A good one makes three things obvious: which stroke variant you are choosing, how the mark interacts with decorated alphabets, and whether the result still fits your platform's character budget. This page exposes all 104 combinations at once — 33 letter families crossed with strike types and borders — so the tradeoffs are visible in a single scroll instead of hidden behind trial and error.
The Unicode approach also deserves an honest explanation. Because the line is a combining character rather than a formatting flag, it survives in apps that never supported strikethrough at all — X posts, Instagram captions, plain-text editors. The flip side is that renderers differ: some fonts draw the mark slightly high or low, and older devices may drop rare frame symbols. Showing you the real characters before you copy is the only reliable safeguard, which is why live preview is treated as a core feature here rather than a nicety.
The comedy mechanics of struck-through text
Strikethrough has become internet shorthand for thoughts someone cannot fully take back — the compliment that gets walked back mid-sentence, the plan everyone knows will fail. It works because the words remain readable under the line. Keep that in mind: if a phrase must be genuinely unreadable, strikethrough is the wrong tool; if the joke needs the reader to still see the word, it is exactly right.
Choosing between strike styles for your platform
For Discord messages, plain single-strike styles render most consistently at chat sizes. For Instagram bios and Pinterest pins, try strike-plus-script pairings, which hold up against the platform's lighter typography. For X posts, count characters first — combining marks count separately and long phrases will crowd your limit.
Combining strikes with other effects
A common pattern is striking one word inside an otherwise normal sentence: copy the crossed-out word, then paste it between regular words, and the line appears mid-sentence without any markdown. You can also pair a struck word with an underlined replacement to stage a visible edit.
When you are ready, type the phrase you want to retract, copy a strike style, and paste it where the joke lands — no sign-up, no downloads, and nothing leaves your browser.