Phone Keypad Translator

How it is calculated

The tool reads your text one character at a time and swaps each letter for the digit on its keypad button, ignoring upper or lower case: ABC→2, DEF→3, GHI→4, JKL→5, MNO→6, PQRS→7, TUV→8, WXYZ→9. A space becomes 0, which is the tool's own convention, so spaces will appear as zeros inside a phone number. The Turkish letters follow the Turkish keypad: Ç→2, Ğ and İ→4, Ö→6, Ş→7, Ü→8, and a lowercase ı or i counts as I. Digits, hyphens, brackets, plus signs and any other symbols, including accented letters such as é, are copied unchanged, which keeps a prefix such as 1-800- intact. The output also shows how many characters the input contains. Empty or blank text gives no result.

Common mistakes

• Typing a vanity number with a space in it, such as "1800 FLOWERS". The space becomes a 0, giving 180003569377 instead of 18003569377. Use hyphens or no separator.
• Expecting other accented letters to be converted. Only the Turkish letters Ç, Ğ, İ, Ö, Ş and Ü have a keypad digit; something like é is copied as it is, so replace it with E first.
• Assuming the result is dialable for every country. A real number has to fit the national format, and a 7-letter word after the area code is what a North American vanity number looks like; other countries use different lengths.
• Confusing the mapping with texting on a phone, where pressing a key several times picks a letter. This tool gives one digit per letter, so it cannot be reversed to a unique word.
• Typing the digits 0 and 1 as if they carried letters. They have none on the standard keypad and are copied unchanged.