List of Latin-script pentagraphs


In the Latin script, pentagraphs are found primarily in Irish orthography. There is one archaic pentagraph in German orthography, which is found in the English word Nietzschean.

Irish

Used between a velarized and a palatalized consonant:
To write the sound :
To write the sound :
To write the sound :
To write the sound :
Used between a slender and a broad consonant:
To write the sound :
To write the sound :
Used between two slender consonants:

Dutch

is used as the transcription of the Cyrillic letter Щ, representing the consonant in Russian, for example in the name Chroesjtsjov.

French

is used as the transcription of the Cyrillic letter Щ, representing the consonant in Russian, for example in the name Khrouchtchev.

German

was once used in German to write the sound. It has largely been replaced by the tetragraph, but is still found in proper names such as Tzschirner and Nietzsche.