User comments, transcripts, and community posts sometimes contain swearing you need to tone down before publishing or sharing.
Profanity Filter masks common English profanity from a built-in list and lets you add your own words, with a few masking styles.
How to use Profanity Filter
- Paste the text you want filtered for profanity.
- Add any extra words to the built-in list and pick a masking style or symbols.
- Copy the filtered text with flagged words masked.
Use cases
- Toning down swearing in a user comment before posting.
- Masking profanity in a transcript for a wider audience.
- Cleaning strong language out of community submissions.
Good to know
Profanity Filter ships with a built-in list of common English profanity and inflections and adds any extra words you supply. It matches whole words and ignores case, then masks each with your chosen character, or with mixed symbols when grawlix is on, and can keep the first letter. No list is exhaustive, and deliberately altered spellings can slip through, so review the result.
Frequently asked questions
Is the built-in profanity list complete?
No list can be. It covers common English profanity and inflections; add your own words for anything specific, and expect some creative spellings to slip past.
What is the grawlix option?
Grawlix replaces a word with a mix of symbols, the comic-strip style of masking swearing, instead of a single repeated character.
Does it catch words with extra letters or symbols inside?
Matching is by whole word, so deliberately disguised spellings may not match; adding them as custom words helps.