How many letters are in the Danish alphabet?

29. The 26 standard Latin letters a–z plus three extra letters — æ, ø and å — which appear at the end of the alphabet in positions 27, 28 and 29.

What order do the extra letters come in?

æ (27th), then ø (28th), then å (29th), after z. This is the same order as Norwegian. Swedish, by contrast, ends with å, ä, ö, so the orderings should not be mixed.

How do I type æ, ø and å?

On Windows, hold Alt and type the code on the numeric keypad: 0230 for æ, 0248 for ø, 0229 for å. On a Mac, use option+' for æ, option+o for ø, and option+a for å, then add Shift for capitals.

Where does the letter å come from?

å replaced the older aa digraph in the 1948 Danish spelling reform. You still see aa in some proper names, such as Aalborg, where the traditional spelling has been kept.

Is this page just a static table?

It is an interactive reference: you can filter to show only the three extra letters, and every row shows live Unicode code points computed in your browser. Nothing is sent to a server.

Danish Alphabet Reference

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The Danish Alphabet Reference lists every letter of the Danish alphabet with its position, Unicode code points, and keyboard shortcuts. It is a quick lookup whenever you need to type, encode, or verify a Danish letter.

How it works

The table is built from the 26 standard Latin letters a–z plus the three letters unique to Danish — æ, ø, and å — placed at positions 27, 28, and 29. For each letter the tool computes the Unicode code point of both the uppercase and lowercase form live in your browser, formatted as U+XXXX. A checkbox filters the view down to just the three extra letters when that is all you need.

The three extra letters

æ, ø, and å are full letters, not accented vowels, and they sort after z:

æ — position 27, U+00E6 / U+00C6
ø — position 28, U+00F8 / U+00D8
å — position 29, U+00E5 / U+00C5

This is the same set and order as Norwegian. Swedish uses a different trio (å, ä, ö), so do not mix the two when sorting or encoding.

Typing tips

Windows: hold Alt and type on the numeric keypad — 0230 for æ, 0248 for ø, 0229 for å.
Mac: option+' for æ, option+o for ø, option+a for å; add Shift for the capitals.

The letter å replaced the older aa digraph in the 1948 spelling reform, which is why some place names — such as Aalborg — still use aa.