Pig Latin is a playful word game, not a real language, where English words are altered by a simple rule. Consonant-initial words have their starting consonants moved to the end, followed by ay, and vowel-initial words just get way or yay added. Pig becomes Igpay and Latin becomes Atinlay.

How are words that start with a vowel handled?

Words beginning with a vowel (a, e, i, o, u) keep their letters in order and simply have way appended. So egg becomes eggway and apple becomes appleway. This tool uses the common way convention.

What about consonant clusters like 'str'?

The entire leading consonant cluster moves to the end together. Street becomes eetstray and glove becomes oveglay. The cluster qu is treated as a unit, so quick becomes ickquay rather than uickqay.

Why does Pig Latin sound the way it does?

Moving the opening sound to the end and tacking on ay obscures the start of each word, which is what makes spoken Pig Latin hard to follow at speed. It is a classic schoolyard cipher used for fun and light secrecy.

Pig Latin Generator — Gera Tools

Q: Does it keep my capital letters and punctuation?

Yes. Capitalization is matched to the original word, so a capitalized word stays capitalized and an all-caps word stays all-caps. Spaces, commas, and full stops are left exactly where they were.

Pig Latin generator

Pig Latin is the classic English word game that rearranges the letters of each word by a simple rule. This tool translates any sentence into Pig Latin instantly, preserving your capitalization and punctuation so the result still reads as natural sentences.

How it works

Each word is transformed on its own using two rules:

If the word starts with a vowel, append way to the end. egg becomes eggway.
If the word starts with one or more consonants, move that whole leading consonant cluster to the end and add ay. glove becomes oveglay.

The cluster qu is treated as a single consonant unit, so quick becomes ickquay. After transforming, the tool restores the original casing — a capitalized word stays capitalized and an all-caps word stays all-caps — and leaves every space and punctuation mark untouched.

Example and notes

The phrase Hello world becomes Ellohay orldway. The well-known examples are Pig to Igpay and Latin to Atinlay.

Pig Latin is not a true language but a word game and light cipher used by children and friends for fun. Different regions use slight variations (yay instead of way for vowel words, for instance); this generator follows the most widely taught convention.