How is Greek title capitalisation different from English?

English title case capitalises most words in a heading. Modern Greek does not: it uses sentence case, capitalising only the first word of the title and any proper nouns. Capitalising every word looks wrong in Greek.

Does it handle Greek accents?

Yes. When a word is lowercased, its accent (tonos) stays in place, and when the first letter is capitalised the accent moves to the capital correctly, for example ά at the start becomes Ά.

How do proper nouns work?

Greek capitalises proper nouns — personal names, place names, months are not capitalised. Enter your proper nouns in the box and the tool capitalises every occurrence of them in the title, leaving ordinary words lowercase.

Is the first letter always capitalised?

Yes. As in an English sentence, the very first letter of a Greek title is capitalised regardless of the word. The rest of the first word stays lowercase unless it is itself a proper noun.

Yes. All the lowercasing and capitalisation happens in your browser. Your text is never uploaded to any server.

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Greek headings follow sentence case, not the word-by-word title case English uses. Only the first word and proper nouns get a capital letter; everything else stays lowercase. This tool converts a title to correct modern Greek capitalisation.

How it works

The process is three steps:

Lowercase everything, preserving accents — ΑΘΗΝΑ becomes αθηνα, and an accented capital like Ά becomes ά.
Capitalise the first letter of the whole title, moving the accent onto the capital form where present.
Re-capitalise proper nouns you supply. Every occurrence of a listed word (matched case-insensitively) is capitalised on its first letter wherever it appears.

Note that Greek does not capitalise days, months, or nationalities the way English does, so those should stay lowercase and are not capitalised unless you explicitly add them as proper nouns.

Tips and example

Η ΙΣΤΟΡΙΑ ΤΗΣ ΑΘΗΝΑΣ with Αθήνας listed as a proper noun becomes Η ιστορία της Αθήνας — sentence case with the place name kept capital.
Leave the proper-noun box empty to get pure sentence case: only the first letter is capitalised.
Accents are preserved, so a word like μέρα keeps its tonos when lowercased and Ελλάδα keeps it when capitalised.
This is the right style for Greek article titles, chapter headings, and book titles, where English-style every-word capitalisation reads as an error.