Accent letters,
copy & paste — instantly.

An accent letter is a regular alphabet character combined with a diacritical mark — a small sign placed above it (á), below it (ç) or through it (ø). Also called diacritics, these marks fine-tune how a letter sounds: they can stress a vowel, lengthen it, nasalise it or give a consonant an entirely new voice. Languages from French and Spanish to Polish, Vietnamese and Yoruba treat many accented forms as letters in their own right.

Click any tile on Accent Characters and the character is copied straight to your clipboard — no selection, no keyboard shortcut, no sign-up. Then paste it wherever you like with Ctrl + V (Windows) or Cmd + V (Mac). Every character here is standard Unicode, so it works in Word, Google Docs, Excel, email, social networks and code editors alike.

You have three reliable options. On Windows, hold Alt and type the character’s four-digit ALT code on the numeric keypad (for example Alt + 0233 produces é). In Microsoft Word, accent shortcuts are faster: press Ctrl + ' then a vowel for an acute accent. On a Mac, press Option plus the accent key (Option + E for acute), release, then type the letter. And whenever shortcuts fail, the copy-and-paste grid above always works.

ALT codes are number combinations that insert characters on Windows. Hold the Alt key, type the decimal number on the numeric keypad, then release Alt. Codes below 256 work everywhere Windows does — Alt + 0241 gives ñ — while longer codes such as Alt + 7801 (ṙ) work in Word and other Unicode-aware apps. Our ALT codes reference lists one for every letter on this page.

On iOS and Android, tap and hold a letter key on the on-screen keyboard — a pop-up menu appears with every accented variation, and you simply slide your finger to the one you need. Holding the vowel keys gives you á, à, â, ä and more; holding N reveals ñ. It is the quickest method on mobile, though this page works perfectly in a mobile browser too.

Yes. Each character is an official Unicode code point, not an image or a custom font glyph, so it behaves like ordinary text: searchable, editable and translatable. It will display correctly in modern browsers, Microsoft Office, Google Workspace, Adobe apps, messaging platforms and every major programming environment. Only a few very old systems with legacy encodings may substitute a fallback glyph.

They look identical — two dots above a vowel — but they do different work. A diaeresis, used in French and English loan-words like naïve, tells you to pronounce the vowel separately from its neighbour. An umlaut, used in German, reshapes the vowel itself (schön sounds nothing like “schon”). Unicode assigns both roles to the same character set, so the letters on Accent Characters work for either language.

Completely. There is no account, no download and no limit. The collection loads as a single static page, works instantly on desktop and mobile, and every character copies to your clipboard with one click. Bookmark it once and never memorise a key combination again.