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Translate text into Pig Latin using the standard schoolyard word-game rules.
ellohay orldway owhay areway ouyay
Pig Latin is a classic English word game: for words starting with a consonant, move the leading consonant cluster to the end and add "ay"; for words starting with a vowel, just add "way". This tool applies those rules to any text.
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The tool splits your text on whitespace and translates each chunk on its own, keeping your original spacing and line breaks untouched. Within a chunk, it looks only at the run of letters at the very start. If that run begins with a, e, i, o or u, the tool appends "way" to the letters. If it begins with anything else, the tool takes the whole leading run of non-vowel letters, moves it to the end in lowercase, and appends "ay". Anything after that first run of letters, such as a comma, a period, an apostrophe, or a digit, is left exactly where it was and placed after the new ending.
This means the letter "y" is treated as a consonant every time. The word "yes" becomes "esyay", and "my" has no vowel at all, so the entire word counts as the consonant cluster and the result is "myay". Words like "rhythm" behave the same way and become "rhythmay". If you follow a stricter rule where "y" acts as a vowel in the middle of a word, expect a slightly different answer for these few words.
Suppose you type the sentence: Please, bring three apples!
The full output is: easeplay, ingbray eethray applesway! Notice that the capital P in "Please" does not carry over to the new first letter. The moved cluster is lowercased, and the remaining letters keep whatever case they had. If you want a capitalized sentence start in the final result, adjust the first letter by hand after copying.
To decode a word, strip the trailing "ay" (or "way" for vowel-start words), then look at the consonants that now sit at the end and move them back to the front. "ellohay" loses "ay", leaving "elloh", and the final "h" moves back to give "hello". Because the tool moves the whole cluster, multi-letter endings like "ingbray" reverse as "br" plus "ing". The main ambiguity comes from vowel-start words, which end in "way" and can look like a consonant word that happened to end that way, so context or a quick human check is needed to decode reliably.
The tool suits classroom exercises where students practice identifying vowels and consonant clusters, party games and word puzzles, light-hearted social posts, and quick prototype text for a game or story. It is a word game, not a real cipher, so do not use it to hide sensitive information: anyone familiar with the rule can read it in seconds. If your text has many names, abbreviations, or code snippets, translate only the plain sentences you want changed and keep the rest separate.
Yes, a few informal variants exist -- this tool uses the most common schoolyard convention described above.
The tool lowercases the consonant cluster it moves to the end, and it does not re-capitalize the new first letter. Fix the start of a sentence by hand after copying the result.
The tool treats "y" as a consonant, so a word with no a, e, i, o or u is all consonants. The entire word is moved to the end and "ay" is added, giving "myay" and "rhythmay".
Punctuation that follows the letters of a word stays attached after the translated ending, so "hello!" becomes "ellohay!". Punctuation before a word, such as an opening quote, stops that chunk from being translated.
Yes. The tool preserves your line breaks and spacing and translates each whitespace-separated chunk independently, so multi-line text works fine.