The Spanish Alphabet Reference lists all 27 letters of the modern Spanish alphabet — the 26 basic Latin letters plus ñ — with their official Real Academia Española (RAE) names, IPA sounds, Unicode code points, and keyboard typing shortcuts for the accented characters. You can also type a Spanish word to hear it spelled by letter name.
How it works
Since the 2010 RAE orthography reform, the Spanish alphabet has 27 letters. The digraphs ch and ll are no longer counted as separate letters, and rr never was, though all three still represent distinct sounds. The official letter names are standardised — a, be, ce, de, e, efe, ge, hache, i, jota, ka, ele, eme, ene, eñe, o, pe, cu, erre, ese, te, u, uve, uve doble, equis, ye, zeta. Note in particular:
- v is officially uve (not ve), to separate it from b (be), since the two are pronounced identically.
- w is uve doble, y is ye (formerly i griega), and ñ is eñe.
Each letter also has an approximate IPA value and a Unicode code point. The five accented vowels and ñ have well-known typing shortcuts: on macOS Option+e then a vowel adds the acute accent and Option+n then n makes ñ; on Windows the Alt codes (Alt+0241 = ñ) or the international keyboard layout do the same.
Example
Spelling niño by letter name:
- n → ene
- i → i
- ñ → eñe
- o → o
So niño is ene, i, eñe, o.
Notes
The accented vowels á, é, í, ó, ú and the diaeresis ü are not extra letters of the alphabet — they are the base vowels with diacritics, filed under their plain forms. Only ñ is a distinct letter. Everything runs locally in your browser — nothing you type is uploaded.