Crossed Out Text Generator
Create text with a diagonal slash through each character using Unicode combining marks. Different from strikethrough — the diagonal slash gives a more dramatic, crossed-out look. Works anywhere plain text is accepted.
Quick Copy — Popular Words in Crossed Out
The popular picks, pre-converted.
The Slash, Not the Line
Crossed-out text is strikethrough's sharper sibling: instead of a horizontal line through each letter, it attaches a diagonal slash overlay (U+0338 family), the mark of negation rather than deletion. The slash carries real meaning in technical writing — mathematics negates relations with it (≠ is literally an equals sign wearing this overlay), and prohibition signs worldwide are a red diagonal for the same reason. A slashed word does not say 'removed'; it says 'not this'.
That makes the two styles usefully different voices: strikethrough performs a retraction (I said it, then took it back); crossed-out performs a veto. ~~Monday~~ reads as a changed plan; a slashed Monday reads as a banned one.
Negation as Decoration
Online, the slash aesthetic borrowed that veto energy for style — crossed-out names in bios signal the discarded identity, the anti-brand, the 'not your average' framing. It pairs naturally with edgy and grunge registers where the circle-family styles would read too cute.
Mechanically it shares strikethrough's portability. The overlay rides each character into any text field, with no formatting support needed. The usual courtesy applies: keep it to names and short phrases, not paragraphs a screen reader must wade through.
Frequently Asked Questions
What is the difference between crossed-out and strikethrough?▼
The mark and the meaning: strikethrough draws a horizontal line (deletion — said and retracted), crossed-out attaches a diagonal slash (negation — the mark inside ≠ and prohibition signs). One reads as a changed plan, the other as a veto.
How does the slash attach to each letter?▼
Via a combining overlay from the U+0338 family, which draws through the preceding character — the same mechanism mathematics uses to build ≠ from =. It travels with the text into bios and usernames like any character.