WordBench tool
Find and Replace
Find every occurrence of a phrase and swap it, with regex support.
About the find and replace
The WordBench find and replace tool swaps every occurrence of a word or phrase for another, across your entire text at once. Type what to find, type what to replace it with, and see the count of matches update along with the result.
For plain edits it works like the find and replace in any editor, but with no document to open and nothing to install. For harder jobs it supports regular expressions, so you can match patterns rather than fixed strings, along with options to ignore case or to match whole words only.
Everything happens in the browser as you type. Because the text never leaves the page, it is safe to run replacements on sensitive content, and because there is no save step, you can experiment freely and copy the result only when it looks right.
Who uses it
Worked example
Paste a paragraph that mentions "Globex" several times after a rebrand to "Umbrella".
Enter Globex to find and Umbrella to replace, and every mention is swapped while the tool reports how many it changed. Turn on match whole words and a substring inside a longer term is left alone, so only the standalone name is replaced.
Frequently asked questions
Can I use a regular expression?
Yes. Enable regex mode and the find field is treated as a regular expression, so you can match patterns, character classes, and groups. When regex mode is off, your text is matched literally, special characters and all.
How do I replace only whole words?
Turn on match whole words. Then finding cat will not touch the cat inside category, because the match must sit on word boundaries. This option applies to literal searches.
Is the search case sensitive?
By default yes, so Report and report are different. Enable ignore case to match regardless of capitalization while keeping the replacement exactly as you typed it.
How many matches can it handle?
As many as your text contains. The replacement runs over the whole input at once and shows a live count of how many occurrences were changed.