Convert English words to Pig Latin using the classic word-game rule. Words starting with a consonant cluster move that cluster to the end and add "ay" (hello → ellohay); words starting with a vowel just get "way" appended (apple → appleway).
This is an educational/puzzle tool — do not use it for real security purposes.
Decoding (Pig Latin → English) is an approximate conversion that may not perfectly restore the original word, due to inherent ambiguity in the rules.
Pig Latin is an English-language word game with roots going back centuries, popularized as a playful "secret language" passed around among English-speaking children. It's still widely recognized today as a lighthearted piece of English wordplay.
The leading consonant cluster of a word — everything up to the first vowel — moves to the end of the word with "ay" appended, treating "qu" as an inseparable unit (so "queen" becomes "eenquay"). Words that already start with a vowel skip that step and just get "way" appended instead (so "apple" becomes "appleway").
Encoding discards some information about exactly which letters originally sat at the front of a word — different English words can end up producing similar-looking Pig Latin forms — so reversing the process is a best-effort heuristic rather than a guaranteed perfect inverse. This is strictly a wordplay game, not a cipher meant for secrecy; a fluent English speaker can usually understand encoded Pig Latin immediately.