Remove Quotes from Words
Strip quotation marks surrounding individual words.
Output Settings
About this tool
Cleans up lists by removing quotes from individual items. It intelligently detects if your list is comma-separated or space-separated and strips the outer quotes from each item.
Remove Quotes from Words – Free Online List Cleaner
Instantly clean up quoted word lists from JSON arrays, CSV exports, database queries, and code strings. Our smart unquote tool strips quotation marks from each word while preserving internal apostrophes and your chosen delimiter format. 100% free with complete browser-based privacy.
What Does This Tool Do?
The Remove Quotes from Words tool is designed to clean up horizontal lists containing quoted items. When you copy data from JSON arrays, CSV files, SQL queries, or programming languages, each value is often wrapped in quotation marks like "apple", "banana", "cherry".
This tool intelligently identifies each quoted word in your list and strips away the surrounding quotes, leaving you with clean text: apple, banana, cherry. It handles double quotes, single quotes, backticks, and even curly "smart" quotes used by word processors.
Unlike simple find-and-replace, this tool is quote-aware—it only removes quotes that wrap words, not apostrophes inside words like "don't" or "it's". Your data stays intact while becoming cleaner and easier to use.
Common Use Cases
Database Exports
Clean SQL query results, MySQL dumps, or phpMyAdmin exports where string values are wrapped in quotes.
CSV Data Cleaning
Remove quotes added by Excel, Google Sheets, or other spreadsheet applications when copying cell ranges.
JSON Array Cleanup
Convert ["value1", "value2", "value3"] into plain text lists for documentation or other formats.
Code Refactoring
Turn string arrays from Python, JavaScript, or other languages back into raw variable names or constants.
Email Formatting
Clean up lists of names, products, or items before pasting into emails or presentations.
API Response Processing
Extract clean values from API responses or debugging logs for further analysis.
Why Use Our Quote Removal Tool?
100% Private Processing
All quote removal happens in your browser. Your data never leaves your device—perfect for cleaning sensitive database exports or confidential business lists.
Smart Format Detection
Automatically detects if your list uses commas, spaces, tabs, or newlines as delimiters and processes each word individually while preserving structure.
Flexible Output Formats
After removing quotes, reformat your list into comma-separated, space-separated, newline-separated, or other formats to match your destination.
How to Remove Quotes from Your Word List
Cleaning quoted lists is quick and easy:
- Paste your quoted list into the input area. Works with formats like
"red", "green", "blue"or JSON-style arrays. - Preview the cleaned result instantly in the output area as the tool automatically removes wrapper quotes.
- Select your output format (optional) if you want to change how the cleaned words are separated—commas, spaces, or newlines.
- Copy the clean list with one click and paste it wherever you need unquoted text.
Example Transformations
"ID", "Name", "Email", "Status"
ID, Name, Email, Status
'pending', 'active', 'archived'
pending
active
archived
Remove Quotes from Words vs. Lines: Which to Use?
Remove Quotes from Words (this tool) is for horizontal lists where multiple quoted items appear on the same line, like "a", "b", "c". Perfect for JSON arrays, CSV rows, and inline code lists.
Remove Quotes from Lines is for vertical lists where each line contains one quoted item. Use it when you have multi-line data with one value per line, each wrapped in quotes.
Frequently Asked Questions
Is this quote removal tool completely free?
Yes, this tool is 100% free with no hidden costs, usage limits, or registration required. Process as many lists as you need without restrictions. We sustain the service through non-intrusive advertising while keeping all features fully accessible.
Is my data private and secure when removing quotes?
Absolutely. All quote removal processing happens entirely in your browser using client-side JavaScript. Your data never leaves your device—it's not uploaded to any server, stored, or transmitted anywhere. This makes it safe for cleaning sensitive database exports, API keys, or confidential business data.
Does it preserve quotes inside words like contractions?
Yes! The tool intelligently distinguishes between wrapping quotes (the ones surrounding each word) and internal apostrophes. Words like "don't", "it's", or "O'Brien" will have their outer quotes removed while preserving the internal apostrophes. The result would be: don't, it's, O'Brien.
What types of quotes can this tool remove?
The tool handles all common quote types: double quotes, single quotes, backticks, and even curly smart quotes. It automatically detects the quote style used in your input and removes matching pairs from each word in the list.
Does it work with comma-separated lists and CSV data?
Yes, the tool intelligently detects your list format. Whether your words are separated by commas (CSV style), spaces, tabs, or newlines, it processes each item individually. For example, '"apple", "banana", "cherry"' becomes 'apple, banana, cherry' with proper delimiter preservation.
Can I choose different output formats after removing quotes?
Yes! After removing quotes, you can reformat your clean list into various output styles: comma-separated, space-separated, newline-separated (one item per line), or tab-separated. This flexibility lets you prepare data for different destinations like spreadsheets, databases, or code files.
How is this different from 'Remove Quotes from Lines'?
'Remove Quotes from Words' processes a horizontal list where multiple quoted words appear on the same line (like JSON arrays or CSV rows). 'Remove Quotes from Lines' processes vertical lists where each line contains one quoted item. Use Words for '"a", "b", "c"' and Lines for multi-line lists.
Can I use this to clean JSON array strings?
Yes, this is perfect for cleaning JSON string arrays. Paste something like ["red", "green", "blue"] and get back red, green, blue (or your preferred format). Note: you may need to remove the surrounding brackets separately, or the tool may handle them depending on your input format.
What happens to empty or whitespace-only items?
The tool can be configured to skip empty items or preserve them, depending on your needs. By default, it processes all items including empty quoted strings (""). If you want to filter out empty results, you can use the output formatting options or combine with our other text filtering tools.
Is there a limit to how much text I can process?
There's no artificial limit—you can process lists with thousands of items. Since processing happens in your browser, performance depends on your device. Modern computers handle lists with tens of thousands of words instantly. The tool is optimized for efficiency with large datasets.
Can I use this to clean up database export results?
Absolutely. Database exports often wrap values in quotes, especially string columns. This tool is ideal for cleaning SQL query results, MySQL dumps, PostgreSQL exports, or data copied from database management tools like phpMyAdmin, DBeaver, or DataGrip. Get clean values ready for documentation or further processing.
Does the tool handle escaped quotes inside strings?
The tool primarily focuses on removing wrapper quotes and handles most common cases. For strings with escaped quotes inside (like "say "hello""), results may vary. In complex cases, you might need to do a second pass or use our text replacement tools for handling escaped sequences.