What's Here
Ñ / ñ — the enye, used in hundreds of Filipino surnames and place names (Muñoz, Parañaque, Peña). Full guide with shortcuts for every device →
Accented vowels — á é í ó ú, à è ì ò ù, and â ê î ô û. In formal and dictionary Filipino, these marks change meaning, not just pronunciation. See the full set and what each accent means →
Schwa (ë) — used in Ilokano, Kinaray-a, Pangasinan, and other Philippine languages for the unstressed vowel sound, as in Ilokano wën (yes).
Peso sign (₱) — not a Filipino letter, but just as absent from standard keyboards. Type ₱ on any device →
Why This Keeps Coming Up
None of these are missing by accident. Standard keyboards are built around English, which doesn't use accent marks at all. Filipino inherited its accented letters from Spanish, but the physical keyboard layout never caught up — so every Filipino writer, student, and office worker ends up needing a workaround for something that should be built in.
How to Use It
- Tap a character above.
- It's copied automatically.
- Paste it (Ctrl+V or Cmd+V) into whatever you're writing — Word, Google Docs, Facebook, anywhere.
Toggle Shift to switch the whole set to uppercase.