English to Greek Transliteration

Transliteration represents the sound of a word in a different alphabet. Translation conveys meaning across languages. This tool is a transliteration helper: it picks Greek letters whose sounds approximate the English input.

First it checks a small built-in dictionary of common biblical and classical Greek terms (logos, agape, christos, et cetera) and returns the standard Greek spelling with a short meaning note. For words not in that list, it falls back to a sound-based letter map.

Dictionary matches include polytonic accents and breathing marks where appropriate (for example, ἀγάπη). The phonetic fallback does not add accents; it produces monotonic Greek letters. Real polytonic Greek requires knowing which syllable carries the accent.

Greek uses a special sigma form (ς) at the end of a word and the regular form (σ) inside a word. The tool detects the last sigma in each transliterated word and replaces it with the final form automatically.

The letter set is the same. The dictionary leans toward Koine (the New Testament dialect) since most readers of this tool are working with biblical texts. For classical Greek vocabulary, use a classical lexicon such as LSJ.