Italian Accented Letters: Complete List to Copy and Paste
Italian mostly writes accents on final stressed vowels: grave on à, è, ì, ò, ù and acute on é in words like perché. Acute í, ó, ú and î appear in more formal or older texts.
Click any letter below to copy it.
Lowercase Italian letters
Uppercase Italian letters
Unicode and HTML codes
| Letter | Name | Unicode | HTML |
|---|---|---|---|
| à | a with grave | U+00E0 | à |
| è | e with grave | U+00E8 | è |
| é | e with acute | U+00E9 | é |
| ì | i with grave | U+00EC | ì |
| í | i with acute | U+00ED | í |
| î | i with circumflex | U+00EE | î |
| ò | o with grave | U+00F2 | ò |
| ó | o with acute | U+00F3 | ó |
| ù | u with grave | U+00F9 | ù |
| ú | u with acute | U+00FA | ú |
| À | Capital A with grave | U+00C0 | À |
| È | Capital E with grave | U+00C8 | È |
| É | Capital E with acute | U+00C9 | É |
| Ì | Capital I with grave | U+00CC | Ì |
| Í | Capital I with acute | U+00CD | Í |
| Î | Capital I with circumflex | U+00CE | Î |
| Ò | Capital O with grave | U+00D2 | Ò |
| Ó | Capital O with acute | U+00D3 | Ó |
| Ù | Capital U with grave | U+00D9 | Ù |
| Ú | Capital U with acute | U+00DA | Ú |
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 Italian keyboard so every letter sits on the long-press menu. The full typing guide has a chart for every letter.
Capital letters
Every lowercase Italian 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 Italian 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 Italian locale in JavaScript, or a Italian collation in your database) so lists follow Italian alphabetical order.