Portuguese (Portugal) Typing Speed Test
Free Online European Portuguese Keyboard – Type Português de Portugal
Welcome to the European Portuguese keyboard online! Our free virtual keyboard follows the Portuguese layout used in Portugal, with the cedilla, the accent dead keys, the guillemets, and the ordinal indicators all where a Portuguese typist expects them. It runs in your browser on any computer, tablet, or phone, with nothing to install and no system settings to change.
Why the Portugal layout specifically? Portuguese is spoken by more than 250 million people across Portugal, Brazil, Angola, Mozambique, Cape Verde, Guinea-Bissau, São Tomé and Príncipe, and East Timor — but it is not typed the same way everywhere. Brazil uses the ABNT2 layout, which places ç on its own key and arranges punctuation differently. Portugal uses a layout closer to other European standards, with ç in a different position and accents produced by dead keys. Someone trained on one is slowed to a crawl on the other, which is why offering the specific national layout matters more than offering 'Portuguese'.
The characters that define it. Portuguese needs ç (cedilha), the acute and circumflex accents (á, é, í, ó, ú, â, ê, ô), the grave (à) for crasis, and the tilde on ã and õ for nasal vowels — a hallmark of the language. This layout also provides the guillemets « », which European Portuguese uses for quotation where English uses inverted commas, and the ordinal indicators º and ª, needed constantly for dates, addresses, and abbreviations such as 1.º and Sr.ª.
Accents carry meaning. They are not optional flourishes: avô (grandfather) is not avó (grandmother), pôde (was able) is not pode (can), and the crasis in à marks a contraction that changes the grammar of the sentence. The 1990 Orthographic Agreement simplified some spellings across the Portuguese-speaking world, but it did not remove the accents that distinguish words.
Perfect for: correspondence and business documents, school and university work, filling in official forms, writing from abroad on a machine with no Portuguese layout, and anyone who needs European rather than Brazilian conventions.
Related keyboards: Portuguese is also official in Timor-Leste alongside Tetum, whose vocabulary it heavily shaped. Switch with the Layout dropdown above.
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Frequently Asked Questions
How is this different from a Brazilian Portuguese keyboard?
The two countries use different physical layouts. Brazil uses ABNT2, which gives ç its own dedicated key and arranges punctuation differently; Portugal uses a layout closer to other European standards, with ç elsewhere and accents produced by dead keys. The language is the same, but a typist trained on one is markedly slower on the other.
How do I type ç?
It is on the layout directly — click or tap it. The cedilha appears constantly in Portuguese, in words such as coração, começar, and França, so it needs to be immediately reachable rather than hidden behind a shortcut.
How do I type nasal vowels ã and õ?
Both are available on the keyboard. The tilde marks nasalisation and is a defining feature of Portuguese — it appears in extremely common words such as não, mão, and lições, and omitting it changes the word.
What are « » used for?
They are guillemets, the quotation marks used in European Portuguese where English uses inverted commas. They appear in books, newspapers, and formal writing, and they are on this layout because they are otherwise awkward to produce.
What are º and ª?
Ordinal indicators, used constantly in Portuguese for dates, addresses, and abbreviations — 1.º, 2.ª, Sr.ª. They are distinct characters rather than superscript letters, and using the real ones keeps text correct when copied between applications.
Do accents really change meaning?
Yes. avô means grandfather while avó means grandmother; pôde is the past tense of poder while pode is the present. The grave accent marks crasis, a contraction that alters the grammar. The 1990 Orthographic Agreement simplified some spellings but left these distinctions intact.
Is this Portuguese keyboard free?
Yes, completely free. There is no cost, no registration, no account, and no limit on how much you type. The site is supported by advertising, which is what keeps the keyboard free to use for everyone.
Does it work on mobile phones and tablets?
Yes. The layout is fully responsive and works on Android and iOS phones, tablets, Chromebooks, Windows, and macOS. On a touchscreen you tap the characters directly, which makes it a practical way to type Portuguese on a device with no Portuguese keyboard installed.
Is my typing private?
Completely private. All processing happens locally in your browser using JavaScript. Your text is never transmitted to a server, never stored, and never logged, so it is safe for personal and sensitive writing.
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