How to put a small letter above another letter
Start with the word you want to decorate. Click or tap immediately after the base letter, then choose a small letter from the buttons. The chosen character attaches to the letter before the cursor. The result updates as you edit, so there is no separate generation step. Copy the finished text when the combination looks right.
For a first attempt, type a short name rather than a whole paragraph. Add one mark, inspect it, and only then add another. This makes it easier to tell which base letter you are changing. You can leave most of a name untouched and decorate just its first or last letter; applying the effect everywhere is not required.
The Example button loads a short sample and replaces the current contents. Use it before starting your own version, or copy your current work somewhere else first. Clear removes the text from the editor. Neither action creates a saved version that you can retrieve from a history panel on this page.
On a phone, tap the text field and position its cursor before choosing a combining letter. If the cursor lands in the wrong place, move it rather than pressing more buttons. A small insertion error is easier to correct while the text is still short. The result area helps you inspect the decoration, but editing takes place in the text field.
Which letters can be stacked
This tool offers thirteen small combining letters: a, e, i, o, u, c, d, h, m, r, t, v and x. These are the characters in the Unicode range U+0363 through U+036F. The buttons insert those particular characters; they do not install a font or turn every letter of the alphabet into an upper layer.
The letter underneath and the letter above have different jobs. The base comes from the text you type. The upper letter comes from the available buttons. You can therefore use an ordinary uppercase base such as A and attach a small a above it. Choosing the a button does not change the base into lowercase or replace it with a different alphabet.
If your intended upper word contains a letter that is not offered, this editor cannot reproduce that word exactly as a combining layer. Keep that part as ordinary text, shorten the decorative idea, or choose a different composition. Substituting an unrelated letter may look interesting, but it also changes what the upper text says. Do not assume a missing button is a hidden setting.
Each base letter can receive up to three of these combining letters through the tool. That is an insertion limit, not a promise that three marks will always form three neat, evenly spaced levels. Fonts may draw the marks close together, overlap them, or position them differently. One clearly visible upper letter often works better than a taller arrangement that becomes difficult to recognize.
Place the cursor without losing text
A base letter must come first
An upper letter needs a letter immediately before the insertion position, possibly followed by existing combining marks. At the beginning of an empty field there is no base, so insertion is refused. The same happens when the cursor follows a space, a punctuation mark, a number or an emoji rather than a letter.
For example, after typing A followed by a space, put the cursor between the A and the space. The upper letter can attach there. Leaving the cursor after the space does not tell the tool to search backward for the nearest word. This distinction matters in sentences where spaces separate the parts you are decorating.
Selecting text changes what is replaced
For ordinary decoration, use a collapsed cursor with no text selected. When a selection starts after a valid base letter, inserting a combining letter replaces the selected portion and attaches the new mark to that preceding base. This is useful for deliberate editing, but it can remove text you intended to keep if you highlight too much.
Suppose the input is abc. Select only b, leaving a immediately before the selection, and choose e. The resulting sequence is aͤc: a remains, b is replaced by the combining e, and c remains. Selecting the whole word instead leaves no preceding base at the start, so that is not the way to apply the effect to every letter.
Existing accents should stay with their base. A letter such as é may be stored as one character or as e followed by an accent. Put the cursor after the complete accented letter, not inside that sequence. The insertion logic refuses a position that would split an existing combining sequence. Retyping the complete letter is a practical way to recover when cursor placement is unclear.
Three short examples you can reproduce
Decorate one initial
Type A, leave the cursor at its end, and press a. The result is AÍ£. There are now two characters in the underlying sequence: the capital base and the small combining letter. The visible result may look like a single decorated unit, but copying carries both parts. Paste it into a draft field to check how that field displays them together.
This is a useful starting point for a display name because you can judge the effect without changing the rest of the name. To add ordinary letters afterward, continue typing in the editor. To decorate an earlier letter, move the cursor back to that letter rather than expecting the next button press to apply across the whole word.
Keep an accented letter
Type é! and position the cursor between é and the exclamation mark. Choose a. The result is éͣ!: the original accent and punctuation are retained, with the combining letter added after é. The exclamation mark is not the base. This example helps separate the position of the cursor from the last visible character in the whole field.
Try the same operation with a short word containing an accent, and inspect the accent before and after insertion. If the final application draws the upper letter over the accent, that is a display problem to assess there. Removing the accent merely to make room may change the spelling, so prefer less decoration when the two compete for space.
Reach the insertion limit
Start with A and add a, e and i without moving the cursor. The sequence becomes Aͣͤͥ. A fourth combining letter on that same base is refused. Move to another base letter if you want a separate decoration, or edit the existing stack before adding a replacement. Repeatedly pressing the fourth button will not increase the permitted depth.
Compare the one-mark version with the three-mark version in the place you intend to use it. The taller option is not automatically more legible. If the application clips the upper area of the line, reducing the stack may preserve more of the intended design than trying different combinations at the same height.
Copying and checking the destination
Copy transfers the current text, not a picture of the preview. After copying, paste into the actual destination and inspect the result before publishing. A successful copy message confirms the copy action, not acceptance by a profile system or identical rendering on another device. Some destinations may reject special characters, remove them, or give the line less vertical room.
If copying fails, select the text in the editor and use your device's normal copy command. Paste into a plain draft first to check that the base letters and upper marks are both present. Avoid judging success solely by the clipboard notification. The important check is what appears after pasting, including spaces, punctuation and the ordinary letters around the effect.
There are no image dimensions, color controls or downloadable font files here. The destination chooses how text is drawn, including its font, size and line spacing. You cannot lock those choices by copying from the larger result preview. A mark that is clearly separated here may sit closer to the base in a smaller profile field.
Keep an undecorated version of important names or labels. It gives you a clear fallback when a destination does not accept the effect, and it helps other people read or retype the text. For instructions, contact details or other information that must be understood, decoration should not carry the only copy of the message. Use the stacked version as an optional visual detail instead.
Fixing common insertion problems
When a letter button does nothing and an error appears, check the cursor first. It must follow a valid base, not a separator. Then check whether that base already has three of the supported upper letters. Finally, check whether the cursor sits inside an accented sequence rather than after it. These are different causes that can lead to the same insertion warning.
The editor accepts up to 5,000 characters. Combining marks also take space in the text, even when they share the same visible position as a base. The limit counts the parts that make up the text, not just the decorated letters you see. Some pasted symbols use more than one part. Short names rarely approach this boundary, but large pasted passages can.
If a paste exceeds the limit, shorten the source before pasting again. If an insertion would exceed the limit, remove unnecessary text or marks first. The tool does not automatically shorten a long name to fit a destination's separate limit. A social profile or another form may impose a much smaller limit and count the same text differently.
To undo an unwanted decorative change, edit the field carefully and inspect the result. Text editors can treat a base and its marks as a group when moving or deleting, so check what remains after a deletion. For a short damaged section, replacing the entire decorated letter with its plain version is often clearer than trying to remove an invisible part of the sequence.
Stacked letters, superscript or a word cloud?
This page adds small combining letters above individual bases. It does not arrange a word vertically with one ordinary letter on each line. It also differs from ordinary superscript, which uses raised text or separate raised characters, and from a full graphic design made from two overlapping text boxes. Choose the method according to the result you need to copy or export.
For an image built from frequently repeated words, use the word cloud generator. That tool counts a source passage and exports a PNG; it does not place an editable small letter above a chosen character. If you only need to change capitalization, use the case converter before decorating. Keeping those tasks separate makes the final text easier to review.
Before finishing, read the plain wording once, check the selected bases, and paste a short sample into its destination. Keep the lightest decoration that communicates the intended effect. The goal is a usable piece of text with a deliberate detail, not the largest possible stack on every letter.