French Accented Letters: Complete List to Copy and Paste
French uses five diacritics: the acute (é), grave (à, è, ù), circumflex (â, ê, î, ô, û), diaeresis (ë, ï, ü, ÿ) and cedilla (ç), plus the ligatures œ and æ.
Click any letter below to copy it.
Lowercase French letters
Uppercase French letters
Unicode and HTML codes
Typing these letters quickly
On Windows, the fastest built-in route is an Alt code, for example Alt+0224 for à. On a Mac, press Option+`, then A. On phones, add the French keyboard so every letter sits on the long-press menu. The full typing guide has a chart for every letter.
Capital letters
Every lowercase French letter above has a capital form, and you should keep the accent on capitals. Dropping accents from capitals is an old typewriter habit; modern style guides for most languages, including the official French and Spanish academies, recommend keeping them.
Sorting and searching French text
Computers sort accented letters by code point unless told otherwise, which can put them after z. Use a locale-aware sort (for example localeCompare with the French locale in JavaScript, or a French collation in your database) so lists follow French alphabetical order.