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Morse Code

Translate text to and from Morse code.

Free to use, no sign-up required. Morse Code is one of 198 tools built into Xenition, alongside a chat that can use them for you.

Translates text into International Morse code and Morse code back into text, for learning the code, puzzles, amateur radio practice or signalling.

How to use Morse Code

1. Choose Text → Morse or Morse → Text.
2. Type your text, or type Morse with the letters separated by spaces and / between words.
3. Read the translation and copy it.

How it works

The table covers A to Z, 0 to 9 and the punctuation . , ? ! / @ and &. When encoding, letters are separated by a space, each space between words becomes /, and any character not in the table is dropped. When decoding, each space-separated code is looked up, / becomes a space, unknown codes are dropped, and output is in capitals.

Example

SOS HELP becomes ... --- ... / .... . .-.. .--. and decoding that string gives SOS HELP again.

Questions about Morse Code

Why are the letters different lengths?

Samuel Morse and Alfred Vail gave the shortest codes to the most common English letters. E is a single dot and T a single dash, while rare letters like Q get four symbols.

How is timing handled in real Morse?

A dash lasts three dots, the gap between letters is three dots and the gap between words is seven. Written Morse stands in for those gaps with spaces and a slash.

What it takes

• Text — Text

Use it from chat

You do not have to open Morse Code to use it. Ask Xenition in plain language and it runs the right tool, then carries the answer into whatever you are working on — a document, a spreadsheet, a deck.

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