Accent letters: copy and paste in one tap

Accent letters you can copy and paste in one tap

Accent Letter is a free tool for everyone who needs an accented character right now: a student writing a Spanish essay, a colleague typing the name José or Müller correctly, a developer looking for the HTML code of é, or anyone on a phone who just wants to paste ñ into a message. Every accent letter on this page copies with a single tap. There is no pop-up, no second click and no sign-up. Next to each letter you will find the exact keyboard shortcut for the device you are using, so the next time you can type it yourself.

What are accent letters?

Accent letters are ordinary letters with a small mark, called a diacritic, placed above, below or through them. The acute accent in é, the tilde in ñ, the umlaut in ü and the cedilla in ç are the ones English speakers meet most often. The marks are not decoration. They tell a reader how to pronounce a word and often which word it is. In Spanish, año means year while ano means something very different, and in French côte (coast) is not the same word as cote (rating). That is why teachers, editors and passport offices care whether the accent is there. Read more in what is a diacritic.

How to copy and paste accent letters

Copying accent letters here takes about a second:

1. Find the letter in the grid above. Letters are grouped from A to Z, so every form of e sits together.
2. Tap it. A green message confirms that the letter is on your clipboard.
3. Paste it where you need it with Ctrl+V, Cmd+V or a long press on your phone.

The search box understands plain descriptions such as "e with two dots", nicknames such as "enye" or "eszett", and code points such as 00E9. The language buttons narrow the grid to the letters one language uses. To copy a whole word, switch on Build a word, tap the letters in order and press Copy all. The letters you copy most often appear under Recently copied, and a star keeps any letter in Favourites for next time.

How to type accent letters on a keyboard

Copying is fastest when you need one letter. If you write in another language every day, it pays to learn how to type accent letters on your keyboard. This site detects whether you use Windows, a Mac, an iPhone, Android, Linux or a Chromebook and shows your method first on every letter page.

Windows

Hold Alt, type a four digit code on the numeric keypad with Num Lock on, then release Alt. Alt+0233 gives é and Alt+0241 gives ñ. On a laptop without a number pad, type the hex code in Word and press Alt+X, or turn on the US-International keyboard layout, where pressing the apostrophe and then e gives é. The full walk-through is in how to type accents on Windows and typing accents on a laptop without a numpad.

Mac

Press Option together with a key that sets the accent, release both, then type the letter. Option+e then e gives é, Option+n then n gives ñ, and Option+u then u gives ü. You can also hold a letter key until a small menu of accented versions appears. See how to type accents on a Mac.

iPhone and Android

Touch and hold the base letter on the on-screen keyboard, slide to the accented version and let go. Holding n offers ñ, and holding e offers é, è, ê and ë. Guides: iPhone and Android.

How to put accent marks on letters in Word

Microsoft Word adds its own shortcuts on top of the system ones. Press Ctrl and the apostrophe, release, then e, and you get é. Ctrl and the backtick gives the grave accent in à, Ctrl+Shift+^ the circumflex in ê, Ctrl+Shift+: the umlaut in ü, Ctrl+Shift+~ the tilde in ñ, and Ctrl+comma the cedilla in ç. End with Shift and the letter for a capital. To add accent to letters in Word automatically, put the plain spelling and the accented spelling into AutoCorrect, for example cafe and café. See accents in Microsoft Word.

Linux, Chromebook, Word and Google Docs

On Linux, enable the Compose key and press Compose, apostrophe, e for é. On a Chromebook, press Ctrl+Shift+U, type the hex code and press Enter. Microsoft Word has its own shortcuts, and Google Docs has a Special characters menu. See Linux, Chromebook, Word and Google Docs.

Accent letters Alt codes

These are the Alt codes people search for most. The four digit codes with a leading zero work in every Windows program. The complete list of accent letters Alt codes covers every letter, including the ones that have no Alt code at all.

Spanish accent letters

All Spanish accent letters, the accent letters Spanish speakers type every day, fit in one short list: the five vowels with an acute accent (á, é, í, ó, ú), ñ, and ü, which appears in words such as pingüino. Add their capitals and the opening marks ¿ and ¡ and you have every special character Spanish needs. The Spanish name for the acute accent is tilde, which surprises many learners. Accent letters in Spanish are not optional: the Real Academia Española requires them on capital letters too. For Spanish accent letters copy and paste, tap Spanish in the filter above or open the Spanish accent letters page. If you type accent letters for Spanish on a US keyboard, the codes below are the ones to remember.

• áAlt+0225
• éAlt+0233
• íAlt+0237
• óAlt+0243
• úAlt+0250
• ñAlt+0241
• üAlt+0252
• ÁAlt+0193
• ÉAlt+0201
• ÍAlt+0205
• ÓAlt+0211
• ÚAlt+0218
• ÑAlt+0209
• ÜAlt+0220
• ¿Alt+0191
• ¡Alt+0161

French accent letters

French accent letters include é, the grave accents on è, à and ù, the circumflex on â, ê, î, ô and û, the diaeresis on ë, ï, ü and ÿ, the cedilla on ç, and the joined letters œ and æ. A French AZERTY keyboard has é, è, ç, à and ù as keys, but not their capitals, which is why É is one of the most searched characters in France. For French accent letters copy and paste, tap French in the filter above or open the French accent letters page.

• éAlt+0233
• èAlt+0232
• êAlt+0234
• ëAlt+0235
• àAlt+0224
• âAlt+0226
• îAlt+0238
• ïAlt+0239
• ôAlt+0244
• ùAlt+0249
• ûAlt+0251
• üAlt+0252
• ÿAlt+0255
• çAlt+0231
• œAlt+0156
• æAlt+0230

German accent letters

German accent letters are the umlauts ä, ö and ü and the sharp s, ß. A capital sharp s, ẞ, has been part of official German spelling since 2017. When a keyboard cannot produce them, German allows ae, oe, ue and ss, but names such as Müller and Straße look wrong without the real letters. The German accent letters page shows how to type them on English keyboards.

• äAlt+0228
• öAlt+0246
• üAlt+0252
• ßAlt+0223
• ÄAlt+0196
• ÖAlt+0214
• ÜAlt+0220
• ẞ1E9E Alt+X

The same approach works for the other languages covered here, including Portuguese, Italian and Polish.

Why use this accent letters tool

• One tap copies, with a clear confirmation, and a fallback that selects the letter if a browser blocks the clipboard.
• Nearly 700 characters, from common letters like é to rare ones used in transcription.
• Keyboard shortcuts checked against Microsoft, Apple and X.Org documentation, with your own device shown first.
• Developer codes on every letter: Unicode, HTML entity, CSS and JavaScript escapes.
• Fast, free, and available in English, Spanish, French, Italian, Portuguese, German and Polish.