Letters with Accents

Accented letters are ordinary Latin letters carrying a small mark — an acute (´), grave (`), circumflex (ˆ), diaeresis (¨), tilde (˜) or cedilla (¸) — that changes how the letter sounds or what the word means. They are also called letters with accents or accent letters. Most languages written in the Latin script use them: French, Spanish, German, Portuguese, Polish, Vietnamese and dozens more. Many accented letters, like Spanish ñ or Danish ø, count as separate letters of the alphabet in their own right. This site groups them into 14 types of accents — browse them above.

Click any letter card on this page and the accented letter is copied to your clipboard instantly — no selecting, no right-clicking. Then paste it anywhere with Ctrl+V (Windows), Cmd+V (Mac) or a long-press → Paste on a phone.

Every character on this site has its own page with a codes table — the Unicode code point, HTML entity and Windows Alt code where one exists, each copyable in one click. Open a letter page like E with accent and click any letter's name in the table to reach its codes, or go straight to a character page like é (U+00E9).

Yes. Every character page has a Customize panel below the typing guides: pick the symbol size, text color and background (solid or transparent), then download a square PNG image or SVG vector — handy for presentations, documents and design work. Try it on the é page.

The classic method is an Alt code: turn on Num Lock, hold Alt, type the four-digit code on the numeric keypad (for example Alt+0225 for á) and release Alt. Each letter’s full page on this site lists its Alt code when one exists. You can also press Win + . to open the emoji panel and look under its Symbols tab — or simply copy the accent letters from here.

macOS uses dead-key shortcuts: press Option plus the accent key, then the base letter. Option+E then E gives é, Option+U then U gives ü, Option+N then N gives ñ. On modern macOS you can also just press and hold the letter key and pick the accented version from the pop-up.

Press Ctrl+' (apostrophe), release, then type e — Word combines them into é. The same pattern works for the other accents: Ctrl+` for à, Ctrl+Shift+^ for â, Ctrl+Shift+: for ä, Ctrl+Shift+~ for ã and Ctrl+, for ç. You can also type the Unicode code point (00E9) and press Alt+X, or use Insert → Symbol.

A diacritic is the technical term for any small mark attached to a letter — accents, umlauts, tildes, cedillas, dots and hooks are all diacritics. “Accent” is the everyday word and usually means the marks that sit above vowels (acute, grave, circumflex). In casual use the two words are interchangeable, which is why this page uses both.

By far the most used are the acute vowels á, é, í, ó, ú (Spanish, Portuguese, Polish), the Spanish ñ, the German umlauts ä, ö, ü, and the French à, â, ç, è and ê. Every variant — lowercase and capital — is listed under its letter above.

Passwords: usually yes, if the site accepts Unicode — an accented letter genuinely makes a password harder to guess, but some older systems reject them or normalize é to e, so test before relying on one. Usernames and email addresses: usually no. Most platforms restrict handles to plain ASCII a–z, so accented letters are stripped or refused.

On Windows, hold Alt and type 0241 on the numeric keypad (Alt+0209 for the capital Ñ). On a Mac, press Option+N then N. On iPhone and Android, press and hold the n key and slide to ñ. On Spanish keyboards, ñ has its own key to the right of L — or click the ñ card on the N with accent page and paste it.

On Windows, hold Alt and type 0252 (Alt+0220 for Ü). On a Mac, press Option+U then U. On phones, press and hold u and slide to ü. German keyboards have a dedicated Ü key, and Chinese pinyin input uses the v key for ü (nv → 女, lv → 绿). More forms live on the U with accent page.