Pig Latin Translator

How it is calculated

The tool reads the text word by word, keeping the spaces as they are, and lowercases each word it converts. If a word begins with a vowel (a, e, i, o, u), it adds way to the end. Otherwise it takes all the consonants before the first vowel, moves them to the end and adds ay. Only a, e, i, o, u count as vowels, so y is always treated as a consonant, and a word with no vowel at all (such as my) is just followed by ay. The tool only converts words made purely of the letters A to Z: a word that contains punctuation, an apostrophe, a digit or an accented letter is copied unchanged, so fun, or hello! stays as typed.

Common mistakes

• Leaving punctuation attached to a word: hello! or fun, is not converted at all. Remove the punctuation, or convert those words yourself.
• Expecting qu to move together: the tool moves only the q, so quick becomes uickqay, not ickquay as in some Pig Latin versions.
• Expecting y to count as a vowel: yes becomes esyay and my becomes myay.
• Expecting capital letters to survive: converted words come out in lowercase, so a capital T in The disappears and it becomes ethay.
• Typing text that is not English or has accented letters; such words are passed through unchanged.