Pig Latin Converter
NewConvert English text to Pig Latin using standard consonant-cluster and vowel-start rules.
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Rule used: a word starting with a vowel gets "way" appended (egg → eggway). A word starting with consonants moves the whole leading consonant cluster (up to the first vowel) to the end and appends "ay" (string → ingstray, "qu" is treated as a single unit). Capitalization of the first letter and trailing punctuation are preserved.
Frequently Asked Questions
What are the actual Pig Latin rules this tool follows?
A word starting with a vowel just gets "way" appended ("egg" → "eggway"). A word starting with one or more consonants has that entire leading consonant cluster (up to the first vowel) moved to the end, followed by "ay" ("string" → "ingstray"). The digraph "qu" is treated as a single consonant unit, so "quick" becomes "ickquay", not "uickqay".
Does it handle punctuation and capitalization correctly?
Yes — leading and trailing punctuation attached to a word (like a comma or period) stays in place around the converted word, and if the original word started with a capital letter, the converted word is re-capitalized at its new starting letter.
Why do different online Pig Latin converters give different answers for the same word?
Pig Latin was never formally standardized — it's a folk word game with several competing conventions (some move only the first consonant, some treat "y" as a vowel, some handle "qu" differently). This tool uses one common, internally consistent rule set, but you may see other tools produce different — equally "valid" — output.
What happens to numbers or symbols in the text?
Anything that isn't a letter (numbers, punctuation, emoji) is left completely unchanged and passes through as-is; only alphabetic words are transformed.
Is this reversible back to English?
Not automatically via this tool, though Pig Latin is actually reversible in principle (unlike leetspeak) since the transformation rule is deterministic — this tool only implements the forward (English → Pig Latin) direction.