Pig Latin Translator

How to use

1. 1Pick a direction. Auto-detect treats input where most words end in the active suffix as Pig Latin, otherwise it encodes English to Pig Latin.
2. 2Pick a vowel-start suffix (-way, -ay, or -yay) and a consonant-start suffix (-ay or -way) to match the Pig Latin variant you use.
3. 3Optionally toggle Treat "y" as a vowel if you want words like "yellow" to be treated as starting with a vowel.
4. 4Type or paste your text into the input on the left. Translation updates live as you type.
5. 5Click Try a sample to load Hello world, a sentence with mixed punctuation, or a pre-encoded Pig Latin example to see both directions.
6. 6Click Copy output to copy the translation, or Use output as input to round-trip the text and verify the rules.

About this tool

Pig Latin Translator converts English to Pig Latin and back, entirely in your browser. The encoder applies the three rules taught in every Pig Latin grammar: words that start with a consonant move the leading consonant cluster to the end and append a suffix (pig becomes igpay, latin becomes atinlay); words that start with a vowel keep their order and append a chosen suffix (apple becomes appleway, or appleay, or appleyay depending on the variant); and the common consonant digraphs ch, sh, th, ph, wh, gh, and qu move to the end as a single unit (think becomes inkthay, square becomes aresquay). A separate setting controls the suffix applied to consonant-start words (-ay or -way) so you can match the variant your classroom, family, or community uses. Capitalization is preserved with Title Case and ALL CAPS detection, so Hello becomes Ellohay and HELLO becomes ELLOHAY. Punctuation, quotes, parentheses, and whitespace stay in their original positions, so a sentence like "Hello, world!" round-trips to "Ellohay, orldway!" without losing any of its formatting. The decoder runs the rules in reverse on a best-effort basis: it strips the active suffix and moves the trailing consonant cluster back to the front. Because Pig Latin is not strictly lossless (a Pig Latin word can correspond to several English words), decoded output is labelled as best-effort and you may need to make a small manual fix when two reversals look equally plausible. Useful for kids learning a classic language game, teachers introducing phonetics in a fun way, writers and authors who need consistent Pig Latin in a chapter or piece of dialogue, party games and codes between friends, accessibility samples, and anyone who has typed "how do I write Pig Latin" into a search box and just wants a working translator on the page. Translation runs locally in JavaScript, so the text you paste here is never uploaded.

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