Pig Latin Translator
Translate English to Pig Latin as you type, or turn Pig Latin back into English. Capital letters, punctuation and contractions are kept, and nothing you type ever leaves your browser.
Pig Latin → English is a best-effort guess: Pig Latin loses information (for example, "orldway" could come from "world" or from a word that starts with a vowel), so a few words may come back slightly wrong. Mixed-case words, proper nouns, and hyphenated words may not reverse exactly (for example, "McDonald").
Why This Tool Matters
Pig Latin is the classic secret language of the playground, and it shows up in more places than you'd expect. A parent helps a child check a homework worksheet on word games, a teacher makes a quick lesson on syllables and consonant clusters, and a writer wants a line of dialogue for a character who speaks in code. Doing it by hand is slow and easy to get wrong on words like "quiet" or "string", where the cluster rule matters.
The reverse direction is handy when someone sends you a message in Pig Latin and you want to read it without working it out word by word. Because Pig Latin loses information, the English you get back is a best guess, and the note under the tool flags the cases where it can be off.
How to Use
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Pick a direction
English → Pig Latin is selected by default — switch to Pig Latin → English to go the other way.
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Type or paste your text
The translation updates live as you type, keeping your punctuation and capital letters.
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Copy the result
Copy the output, or toggle directions to carry it over as the new input.
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Frequently Asked Questions
What are the rules of Pig Latin?
For a word that starts with a consonant, move the leading consonant or consonant cluster to the end and add "ay": "hello" becomes "ellohay" and "string" becomes "ingstray". A "qu" travels together, so "quiet" becomes "ietquay". For a word that starts with a vowel, add "way" to the end: "apple" becomes "appleway". There are regional variations (some use "yay" or "hay" for vowel words); this tool uses "way".
Why is translating Pig Latin back to English only approximate?
Pig Latin throws information away. "Orldway" could be "world" with its "w" moved, or a vowel-start word followed by "way", and nothing in the word tells you which. The tool uses common English consonant clusters to guess where the split was and gets most ordinary words right, but unusual words and some "w" words will come back slightly wrong. Mixed-case words, proper nouns, and hyphenated words may not reverse exactly either (for example, "McDonald"). If you need exact results, keep the original English text.
How do words that start with a vowel work?
They keep all their letters and simply gain "way" at the end: "egg" becomes "eggway", "I" becomes "Iway", and "other" becomes "otherway". The letter "y" counts as a consonant at the start of a word ("yes" becomes "esyay") and as a vowel everywhere else ("my" becomes "ymay").
Does it handle punctuation and capital letters?
Yes. Punctuation, numbers, spaces and line breaks stay exactly where they are, and only the letters of each word are rearranged. A capitalized word stays capitalized ("Hello" becomes "Ellohay"), an all-caps word stays all caps ("HELLO" becomes "ELLOHAY"), and contractions keep their apostrophe ("don't" becomes "on'tday").
Is my text sent to a server?
No. The translation runs entirely in your browser with JavaScript. Nothing you type is uploaded, logged, or stored, and the tool keeps working offline once the page has loaded.