Pig Latin Translator
Translate English to Pig Latin. Preserves capitalization and punctuation.
Rules: Words starting with a vowel → add -way (e.g. apple → appleway). Words starting with consonants → move leading consonant cluster to end, add -ay (e.g. string → ingstray).
About this tool
Pig Latin Translator
Pig Latin Translator converts English text into Pig Latin, handling capitalisation and punctuation.
How to use it
- Type or paste your English text.
- Read the Pig Latin output.
- Copy the result.
The two rules
A word starting with a consonant moves everything up to the first vowel to the end and adds ay: pig becomes igpay, and street becomes eetstray because the whole str cluster moves.
A word starting with a vowel just gets a suffix, usually way or yay, so apple becomes appleway. The awkward cases are words like honour, where the sound starts with a vowel but the spelling does not, and y, which is a consonant at the start of a word and a vowel elsewhere.
When it helps
- A word game for children learning about syllables and sounds.
- A playground code.
- Demonstrating simple rule-based text transformation.
- Amusing yourself in a meeting.
Common mistakes
- Moving only the first letter of a consonant cluster. The whole cluster moves, so street is eetstray and not treetsay.
- Expecting one correct standard. Pig Latin is folk usage and the vowel-word suffix varies between way, yay and ay by region.
