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French Alphabet (Latin)

The letters and characters of French 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 332,956,351 people read or write it across 64 countries.

62,198Fonts cover the standard set
42Standard characters
332,956,351People
64Countries

Standard characters

The minimal set of characters required for French — 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 ÀàÂâ A U+0041 · U+0061 U+00C0 · U+00E0 · U+00C2 · U+00E2 136,064 / 135,110 81,628 / 81,984 / 81,577 / 81,513
Ææ Ae U+00C6 · U+00E6 74,355 / 74,203
Bb B U+0042 · U+0062 135,982 / 135,083
Cc Çç C U+0043 · U+0063 U+00C7 · U+00E7 135,993 / 135,072 80,520 / 80,911
Dd D U+0044 · U+0064 136,007 / 135,110
Ee ÉéÈèÊêËë E U+0045 · U+0065 U+00C9 · U+00E9 · U+00C8 · U+00E8 · U+00CA · U+00EA · U+00CB · U+00EB 136,045 / 135,092 82,303 / 82,793 / 81,628 / 81,780 / 81,459 / 81,460 / 81,469 / 81,480
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 ÎîÏï I U+0049 · U+0069 U+00CE · U+00EE · U+00CF · U+00EF 135,906 / 134,997 81,234 / 81,023 / 81,413 / 81,229
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 Ôô O U+004F · U+006F U+00D4 · U+00F4 135,747 / 134,876 81,389 / 81,312
Œœ Latin Small Ligature Oe U+0152 · U+0153 64,730 / 64,779
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 ÙùÛûÜü U U+0055 · U+0075 U+00D9 · U+00F9 · U+00DB · U+00FB · U+00DC · U+00FC 135,534 / 134,690 81,265 / 81,298 / 81,048 / 81,050 / 82,555 / 82,479
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 Ÿÿ Y U+0059 · U+0079 U+0178 · U+00FF 135,463 / 134,648 71,283 / 80,111
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+2019"U+0022“U+201C”U+201D«U+00AB»U+00BB(U+0028)U+0029[U+005B]U+005D§U+00A7@U+0040*U+002A/U+002F&U+0026#U+0023†U+2020‡U+2021

Where French (Latin) is read

Countries shaded by the share of their population that reads or writes French 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
France 66,323,362 97%
Congo - Kinshasa 58,855,530 51%
Cameroon 21,056,948 68%
Algeria 15,517,425 33%
Germany 15,141,438 18%
Morocco 13,459,536 36%
Italy 12,192,980 20%
United Kingdom 11,638,047 17%

French (Latin) — facts

Font coverage 62,198 of 137,179 fonts include every one of the 42 standard characters; 1,167 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, Latin Extended-B, General Punctuation
People About 332,956,351 people read or write French in the Latin script — mostly in France, Congo - Kinshasa, Cameroon, Algeria, Germany.

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