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English Alphabet (Latin)

The letters and characters of English written in the Latin script, in order — every standard character with its name and codepoint, the additional and punctuation sets, and exactly how many fonts include them. About 1,728,473,504 people read or write it across 152 countries.

English is also written in: (Deseret)(Shavian)

134,155Fonts cover the standard set
26Standard characters
1,728,473,504People
152Countries

Standard characters

The minimal set of characters required for English — the language's alphabet, in its traditional order. Tap a character to copy it; each name opens the full character page. The Fonts column counts how many fonts include each letter, in the same order as the letters and codepoints; an accented form under a letter gets its own codepoint and count line beneath it.

LetterNameCodepointsFontsper letter, in order
Aa A U+0041 · U+0061 136,064 / 135,110
Bb B U+0042 · U+0062 135,982 / 135,083
Cc C U+0043 · U+0063 135,993 / 135,072
Dd D U+0044 · U+0064 136,007 / 135,110
Ee E U+0045 · U+0065 136,045 / 135,092
Ff F U+0046 · U+0066 135,955 / 135,041
Gg G U+0047 · U+0067 135,944 / 135,030
Hh H U+0048 · U+0068 135,937 / 135,003
Ii I U+0049 · U+0069 135,906 / 134,997
Jj J U+004A · U+006A 135,779 / 134,898
Kk K U+004B · U+006B 135,820 / 134,904
Ll L U+004C · U+006C 135,840 / 134,937
Mm M U+004D · U+006D 135,809 / 134,871
Nn N U+004E · U+006E 135,770 / 134,851
Oo O U+004F · U+006F 135,747 / 134,876
Pp P U+0050 · U+0070 135,726 / 134,808
Qq Q U+0051 · U+0071 135,653 / 134,746
Rr R U+0052 · U+0072 135,744 / 134,845
Ss S U+0053 · U+0073 135,721 / 134,797
Tt T U+0054 · U+0074 135,769 / 134,800
Uu U U+0055 · U+0075 135,534 / 134,690
Vv V U+0056 · U+0076 135,566 / 134,636
Ww W U+0057 · U+0077 135,522 / 134,664
Xx X U+0058 · U+0078 135,478 / 134,585
Yy Y U+0059 · U+0079 135,463 / 134,648
Zz Z U+005A · U+007A 135,487 / 134,568

Additional Characters

Used for foreign words, names and technical terms, and older forms of the language.

Punctuation characters

The marks used to separate sentences and to clarify meaning.

-U+002D‐U+2010‑U+2011–U+2013—U+2014,U+002C;U+003B:U+003A!U+0021?U+003F.U+002E…U+2026'U+0027‘U+2018’U+2019"U+0022“U+201C”U+201D(U+0028)U+0029[U+005B]U+005D§U+00A7@U+0040*U+002A/U+002F&U+0026#U+0023†U+2020‡U+2021′U+2032″U+2033

Where English (Latin) is read

Countries shaded by the share of their population that reads or writes English in the Latin script.

50% or more of the country 10–50% 1–10% under 1% not listed for this language

Estimated readers — share of each country's population (CLDR).

CountryEstimated readersShare of population
United States 328,284,480 96%
India 267,734,700 19%
Pakistan 126,182,000 50%
Nigeria 125,475,910 53%
Philippines 75,697,280 64%
United Kingdom 67,089,918 98%
Germany 53,836,224 64%
Ethiopia 50,976,500 43%

English (Latin) — facts

Font coverage 134,155 of 137,179 fonts include every one of the 26 standard characters; 5,937 include the standard and additional sets together. Counts are exact for the snapshot of 21 October 2026.
Script Latin
Unicode blocks Basic Latin, Latin-1 Supplement, Latin Extended-A, General Punctuation
People About 1,728,473,504 people read or write English in the Latin script — mostly in United States, India, Pakistan, Nigeria, Philippines.
Also written in English (Deseret), English (Shavian)

Data: Unicode CLDR exemplar characters (CLDR 48.2.0) and CLDR territory population data. Font counts: snapshot of 21 October 2026.