Morse Code Decoder — Turns Dots and Dashes into English
Morse Code Decoder turns dots and dashes into plain English text instantly. Enter Morse below — using dots and dashes separated by spaces, and a slash or double space between words — to decode it right away.
Morse Code → English
What this decoder accepts
This decoder is built to be forgiving: it accepts a dot as either . or ·, and a dash as either - or −. Separate each letter with a space, and each word with a forward slash or a double space. Anything it cannot match is left out rather than guessed at.
We are also building a version of this decoder that can listen to a Morse audio recording or a microphone and transcribe it automatically, shown below once it is ready.
Tips for reading Morse code by eye
Look for the gaps first. A single space separates the dots and dashes that make up one letter; a forward slash (or a noticeably longer gap) separates one word from the next. Reading letter by letter, rather than trying to take in a whole word at once, is the fastest way to avoid mistakes when you are starting out.
Short, common letters are easy to spot once you know them: a single dot is E, a single dash is T. Longer, four-symbol codes belong to the least common letters in English, such as Q, X, Y and Z.
Need to go the other way? Use the full two-way Translator →
Morse → Audio
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