What is lowercase?
lowercase converts every capital letter to its small form. Digits, spaces and punctuation stay untouched — only cased letters change.
lowercase examples
- Hello World EXAMPLE → hello world example
- User@Example.COM → user@example.com
- MixedCase Input → mixedcase input
Where is lowercase used?
Lowercasing is the standard cleanup step before comparing or storing text: email addresses and usernames are normalized to lowercase, URLs and slugs avoid capitals, and tags, search keywords and product SKUs are often stored in lowercase so duplicates collapse into a single value.
lowercase and other styles
Lowercase is also the raw material for the coding styles: snake_case and kebab-case are lowercase words with separators, and camelCase starts with a lowercase word. Sentence case is lowercase plus a capital at the start of each sentence — see the sibling converters below.