Six Dots

A braille dot reference. Covers Grade 1 and UEB Grade 2.

Turn on if you use a refreshable braille display, to show each result's real braille cells on it. Spoken VoiceOver stays the same.

Look up dots

A letter, number, symbol, or contraction — e.g. "b", "7", "comma", "euro", "the", "ing". Each has one fixed pattern, so there's no contracted/uncontracted choice here — type a contraction by its name to get its dots. To write a whole word either way, use "Spell a word" below.

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Spell a word

Type a word to see it written in braille, letter by letter or contracted.

Spelling

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Contractions and shortforms (Grade 2)
    Alphabet, numbers, punctuation, and currency (Grade 1)