English to Hindi transliteration

Transliterate English letters into Hindi Devanagari online. Type the sound, get the script, pick between spellings. Runs in your browser, nothing uploaded.

Transliterate English letters into Devanagari

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Transliteration is not translation

Transliteration changes the letters and leaves the language alone. The Hindi word satyamev jayate transliterates to सत्यमेव जयते — the same words, the same meaning, written in Devanagari instead of Roman letters. A translation would give you "truth alone triumphs", which is a different sentence in a different language.

This distinction is the whole point of the tool. If you already know what you want to say in Hindi and you are simply stuck with a Latin keyboard, transliteration is what you need. If you type an English sentence here, you will get that English sentence spelled out in Devanagari letters — readable, but still English.

The same applies to names, addresses and anything else that should not be reworded. Transliterating a name keeps it recognisable; translating it changes it into something else entirely.

Why more than one spelling appears

Roman letters carry less information than Devanagari needs. Hindi distinguishes short and long vowels — इ against ई — and dental consonants from retroflex ones — त against ट. English writes both members of each pair with the same letter, so any transliteration has to guess, and no amount of cleverness removes the ambiguity.

Rather than pretend there is one right answer, the tool offers up to six spellings for the word you are typing and lets you choose. Click one or press its number. Around two hundred of the most common Hindi words bypass the guessing entirely and come from a built-in list, because those are the ones where a wrong guess is most noticeable.

You can also help it along. Doubling a vowel asks for the long form — i gives इ while ee gives ई — and a capital T or D asks for the retroflex ट and ड.