Accent Letters Copy And Paste | Accented Marks Pronunciation & Diacritics Online Tool
Tap any accented letter to copy it. 625 accent letters from A to Z, each with its ALT code, Unicode value and the shortcut for Windows, Mac, Word and mobile.
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Most Used Accent Letters
The accented letters people copy most, from Spanish ñ and French ç to German ü and Nordic å. Tap one to copy it.
Accented Letters by Language
Open a language to copy exactly the accented letters it uses, with a note on anything that behaves differently from how it looks.
Spanish
Ñ is a separate letter of the Spanish alphabet, not an accented n. The acute marks stress, and it can be the only thing that tells two words apart: si (if) and sí (yes).
French
The acute on é and the grave on è and à are the ones you will type most. French also uses the ligatures œ and æ, in words such as cœur and curriculum vitæ.
German
Ä, Ö and Ü are vowels in their own right. ß follows a long vowel, ẞ is its capital form, and Swiss German writes ss instead.
Portuguese
The tilde on ã and õ marks a nasal vowel, which is why Portuguese uses it far more often than Spanish does.
Italian
Accents almost always fall on the last syllable, as in città and perché. You will also meet the rarer í, î and ú in older or formal texts.
Polish
All nine are separate letters of the Polish alphabet. The ogonek on ą and ę marks a nasal vowel, and ł sounds like an English w.
Czech & Slovak
The caron does most of the work. Czech also has ů, a u with a ring, which is different from ú. Slovak adds ä, ô, ĺ, ľ and ŕ.
Hungarian
ő and ű are the long forms of ö and ü, written with a double acute rather than an umlaut.
Turkish
Dotted İ and dotless ı are two different letters, and swapping them changes the word. ğ is silent and lengthens the vowel before it.
Romanian
ș and ț take a comma below, not a cedilla. Older fonts often swap in ş and ţ, which is a spelling error in Romanian.
Vietnamese
Five tone marks stack on vowels that may already carry a mark, giving forms such as ấ and ằ. Each one is still a single Unicode character.
Nordic
Swedish and Finnish use ä and ö. Danish and Norwegian use æ and ø. Icelandic adds ð and þ, and all of them sort after z.
Pinyin
The macron, acute, caron and grave carry the first, second, third and fourth tones. ü takes the same four marks.
Accented Letters A to Z: Copy and Paste Accent Letters
Open a letter to copy its most used accented forms, lowercase beside capital. Each letter page has the complete set with ALT codes, Unicode and HTML entity values, and the languages that use each letter.
A with accent
67
B with accent
14
C with accent
19
D with accent
20
E with accent
53
F with accent
6
G with accent
19
H with accent
21
I with accent
32
J with accent
6
K with accent
16
L with accent
25
M with accent
7
N with accent
26
O with accent
76
P with accent
8
Q with accent
2
R with accent
23
S with accent
26
T with accent
26
U with accent
62
V with accent
7
W with accent
15
X with accent
4
Y with accent
25
Z with accent
20
Types of Accent Marks: Acute, Grave, Circumflex, Umlaut, Tilde, Cedilla and More
Fifteen diacritical marks do almost all the work in Latin-script languages. Each changes the letter it sits on in a different way: its sound, its stress, its length, or which word it spells. Tap any example to copy it.
Acute accent
Leans to the right over a vowel. Spanish uses it to show where the stress falls when a word breaks the usual rule, as in café. In Czech, Hungarian and Irish the same mark means the vowel is held longer.
Used in Spanish, Portuguese, French, Czech, Hungarian, Irish, Polish
Grave accent
Leans to the left and marks a lower pitch or a more open vowel. French keeps it to a small set of words, such as crème and déjà, and uses it to separate words spelled the same, like à (to) and a (has).
Used in French, Italian, Catalan, Vietnamese
Circumflex
A small roof over the vowel. In French it usually stands for a letter, most often s, that dropped out of the older spelling: hôpital was once hospital. Portuguese, Romanian, Welsh and Vietnamese use it to mark vowel quality.
Used in French, Portuguese, Romanian, Welsh, Vietnamese
Diaeresis or umlaut
Two dots over the vowel. As a diaeresis it tells you to say the vowel separately from the one before it, as in naïve. As a German umlaut it changes the vowel sound itself.
Used in German, Dutch, French, Swedish, Finnish
Tilde
A wave over the letter. In Spanish, ñ is a letter of its own. Portuguese uses the tilde for nasal vowels, as in irmão, and Vietnamese uses it as one of its five tone marks.
Used in Spanish, Portuguese, Vietnamese
Cedilla
A small hook hanging below the letter. It softens c to an s sound, which is why French writes français. Turkish uses it on ş. Romanian ș and ț look similar but correctly take a comma below.
Used in French, Portuguese, Catalan, Turkish
Caron or háček
A small v over the letter and the workhorse of Czech, Slovak, Croatian, Slovene and Latvian. It usually turns a consonant into a sh, ch or zh sound: š is sh, č is ch, ž is zh.
Used in Czech, Slovak, Croatian, Slovene, Latvian, Lithuanian
Macron
A flat bar meaning the vowel is long. Latvian, Māori, Hawaiian, Latin teaching texts and Japanese romanisation rely on it, and dropping it can change the word.
Used in Latvian, Māori, Hawaiian, Latin, Japanese romaji
Breve
A shallow cup over the letter. Romanian ă stands for the schwa sound, Vietnamese ă is a short a, and Esperanto uses ŭ. On Turkish ğ it lengthens the vowel before it.
Used in Romanian, Turkish, Vietnamese, Esperanto
Ogonek
A small hook at the bottom right of a vowel, marking a nasal or historically long sound. It looks like a cedilla but attaches to the right side instead of hanging straight down.
Used in Polish, Lithuanian
Ring above
A small circle over the letter. In Swedish, Norwegian and Danish, å is a full letter that sorts after z, so treating it as a plain a puts a list in the wrong order. Czech ů is a long u.
Used in Swedish, Norwegian, Danish, Czech
Double acute
Two slanted strokes, used only in Hungarian for the long forms of ö and ü. Swapping in an umlaut is a common mistake.
Used in Hungarian
Dot above
A single dot that marks a distinct sound rather than stress, as in Polish ż, Maltese ċ and ġ, and Lithuanian ė. Turkish uses it on capital İ.
Used in Polish, Maltese, Lithuanian, Turkish
Dot below
A dot under the letter. Vietnamese uses it for the heavy tone, and Sanskrit and Indic transliteration use it for retroflex consonants.
Used in Vietnamese, Sanskrit and Indic transliteration
Stroke
A line cut through the letter. These are separate letters of their alphabets rather than accents, as with Danish and Norwegian ø, Polish ł, Croatian đ and Maltese ħ.
Used in Danish, Norwegian, Polish, Croatian, Maltese
How to Type Accent Letters on Windows, Mac, Word and Mobile
Copy and paste is fastest for a one-off letter. If you type accents often, a shortcut for your device is quicker once you know the few letters you use most.
Windows ALT codes
- Hold Alt down for the whole sequence.
- Type the four-digit code on the numeric keypad, for example 0233.
- Let go of Alt and é appears.
The number row above the letters will not work. On a laptop without a keypad, switch on the built-in one with Fn+Num Lock first. ALT codes end at 0255, so letters such as č, ğ, ł or ō have no working code: use Alt+X in Word or copy them from this page.
Word and Outlook
Press the shortcut for the mark, let go, then press the letter. Ctrl+' followed by e gives é. Hold Shift with the final letter for the capital.
| Letters | Shortcut |
|---|---|
| à è ì ò ù À È Ì Ò Ù | Ctrl+`, then the letter |
| á é í ó ú ý Á É Í Ó Ú Ý | Ctrl+', then the letter |
| â ê î ô û Â Ê Î Ô Û | Ctrl+Shift+^, then the letter |
| ã ñ õ Ã Ñ Õ | Ctrl+Shift+~, then the letter |
| ä ë ï ö ü ÿ Ä Ë Ï Ö Ü Ÿ | Ctrl+Shift+:, then the letter |
| å Å | Ctrl+Shift+@, then a or A |
| æ Æ | Ctrl+Shift+&, then a or A |
| œ Œ | Ctrl+Shift+&, then o or O |
| ß | Ctrl+Shift+&, then s |
| ç Ç | Ctrl+,, then c or C |
| ð Ð | Ctrl+', then d or D |
| ø Ø | Ctrl+/, then o or O |
| ā ē ī ō ū | Type 0101, 0113, 012B, 014D or 016B, then Alt+X |
| ¿ | Alt+Ctrl+Shift+? |
| ¡ | Alt+Ctrl+Shift+! |
The Alt+X method for any letter
Type the letter’s four-character hex code, then press Alt+X. 00E9 gives é, 010D gives č and 1EBF gives ế. Press Alt+X again to turn it back. This is the reliable route for any letter above 0255.
If a shortcut does nothing, check that Caps Lock is off.
Mac
Hold Option and press the key for the mark, let go of both, then press the letter.
| Letter | Shortcut |
|---|---|
| é | Option+E, then the letter (acute) |
| è | Option+`, then the letter (grave) |
| ê | Option+I, then the letter (circumflex) |
| ë | Option+U, then the letter (umlaut) |
| ñ | Option+N, then the letter (tilde) |
| ç | Option+C |
| ß | Option+S |
You can also hold down any letter key. An accent picker opens above the cursor, and each option has a number you can press.
iPhone and Android
Press and hold the base letter on the keyboard. The accented versions appear above your finger: slide onto the one you want and lift. Holding a offers à á â ä ã å æ, and holding n offers ñ.
Adding a second keyboard language widens the set offered for each key, which is worth doing if you write in Vietnamese, Polish or a Nordic language.
US International keyboard
This Windows layout turns the punctuation keys into dead keys, so ' followed by e gives é with no code to remember. Add it under Settings, Time and language, Language and region, then the options for English.
It is the best option if you type accented text every day. The trade-off is that a quote or apostrophe on its own now needs a space after it.
Google Docs and browsers
Google Docs has Insert, then Special characters, with a search box that accepts names such as e acute. For web forms, use a keyboard layout, the emoji and symbol panel (Win+. on Windows, Ctrl+Cmd+Space on Mac), or copy from this page.
Windows also includes Character Map (search for charmap), which lets you browse a font and copy any character in it.
HTML, CSS and JavaScript
Paste the letter directly into HTML as long as the page declares <meta charset="utf-8">. Entities are only needed where the raw character cannot be trusted.
| Where | é written as |
|---|---|
| HTML entity | é or é |
| CSS | \00E9 |
| JavaScript and Java | \u00E9 |
| Python | \u00e9 |
How to Use Accented Letters in Documents, Email and Online
A letter copied from this page is a standard Unicode character, so once pasted it saves, sends, prints and searches like any other. These are the places accents matter most, and the one thing to check in each.
Academic writing and research
Citations, foreign sources and transliterated terms need their marks intact. A misspelled author name breaks a reference match, and most style guides treat a dropped accent as an error.
Business documents
Client names, place names and product names carry accents. Contracts, invoices and international email are where a missing mark gets noticed.
Email, social media and chat
Every major platform stores text as Unicode, so a pasted accent letter survives in posts, captions and messages, and counts as one character.
Learning a language
Marks carry pronunciation. Writing the correct form means you learn the spelling as it is really used, not an English-keyboard approximation.
Names, forms and databases
Names are the most common reason people need these letters. Use the precomposed letter, or search and sorting will treat two identical-looking names as different records.
Web design, code and print
Declare UTF-8 and paste the letter straight into HTML. In CSS, JavaScript and Python use the escape form, and check your font has the glyph before it goes to print.
Accent Letters FAQ: Copy Paste, ALT Codes and Unicode
What are accent letters?
An accent letter is an ordinary Latin letter carrying an extra mark, called a diacritic. The mark changes how the letter is pronounced or where the stress falls, and in some languages it makes a separate letter of the alphabet. é, ñ and ü are the most common examples. Each one is a standard Unicode character, so it behaves like any other letter once it is in your text.
How do I copy and paste accent letters?
Tap any letter on this page and it is copied to your clipboard. Go to your document, email or form and press Ctrl+V on Windows or Cmd+V on Mac. Every letter you tap also collects in the tray at the bottom of the screen, so you can build a whole word or name and copy it in one go.
Do accented letters work in every app?
Yes, in any app that supports Unicode, which is effectively all modern software. The letter is stored as a code point, not an image, so it survives copy, paste, save and send. Only its shape can change, because that depends on the font used to display it.
Why does my ALT code give the wrong character?
ALT codes are read from the numeric keypad, so Num Lock must be on, and a laptop without a keypad needs its Fn layer switched on first. Codes with a leading zero, such as Alt+0233, use the Windows-1252 set and are the reliable ones. That set stops at 0255, so letters such as č, ğ or ō have no working ALT code. For those, type the hex code and press Alt+X in Word, or copy the letter from this page.
Should I use a combining mark or a precomposed letter?
Use the precomposed letter. Every letter on this site is a single precomposed code point, so search, sorting and spell check treat it as one letter. A base letter followed by a separate combining mark can look identical but counts as two characters, which causes failed searches and duplicate database entries.
Is it wrong to leave the accents out?
In most languages it is a spelling error. In Spanish an accent can separate two different words, and in French and Portuguese it can change a verb's tense. Formal writing, names and anything published should keep the correct marks.
How do I type accent letters on a phone?
Press and hold the base letter on the on-screen keyboard. A row of accented versions appears above your finger, and you slide onto the one you want. It works the same on iPhone and Android, and the letters offered depend on which keyboard languages you have added.
How many accented letters are there?
This site lists 625 precomposed accented Latin letters from the Latin-1 Supplement, Latin Extended-A, Extended-B, Extended-C, Extended-D, Latin Extended Additional and IPA Extensions blocks of Unicode. That covers every European language written in Latin script, plus Vietnamese and the main transliteration systems.