English word senses marked with topical category "Latin letter names"

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Total 92 word senses

• Germanic h (Noun) Synonym of aspirated h
• aitch (Noun) The name of the Latin-script letter H/h.
• alpha (Noun) The name of the first letter of the Greek alphabet (Α, α), followed by beta. In the Latin alphabet it is the predecessor to A.
• ar (Noun) The name of the Latin-script letter R/r.
• arr (Noun) Alternative form of ar; the name of the Latin-script letter R/r.
• ash (Noun) The traditional name for the ae ligature (æ), as used in Old English.
• aspirated h (Noun) In the French language, usage of the letter h at the start of a word which does not allow liaison with a preceding consonant or elision of a preceding schwa.
• ay (Noun) The name of the Latin-script letter A/a.
• bee (Noun) The name of the Latin-script letter B/b.
• bossy r (Noun) The letter r (in certain English words, such as bird and sort) that modifies the pronunciation of the preceding vowel.
• canine letter (Noun) The letter r.
• cee (Noun) The name of the Latin-script letter C/c.
• cue (Noun) The name of the Latin-script letter Q/q.
• curly cuh (Noun) The letter C, as distinct from the letter K ("kicking kuh").
• dee (Noun) The name of the Latin-script letter D/d.
• descending s (Noun) Synonym of long s
• dotless i (Noun) A letter whose uppercase version is "I" and lowercase version is "ı". A letter "I"/"i" without the lowercase dot, that is used in the Turkish language.
• double S (Noun) The name of the Latin-script letter ẞ/ß.
• double-u (Noun) The name of the Latin-script letter W/w.
• doubleyou (Noun) The name of the Latin-script letter W/w.
• dubs (Noun) The name of the Latin-script letter W/w.
• e (Noun) The name of the Latin-script letter E/e.
• e caudata (Noun) A form of the letter e modified by the addition of a diacritical “tail”: ⟨ę⟩.; Used in Latin for a long ē that represents an etymological ⟨ae⟩ or ⟨oe⟩ diphthong, both of which diphthongs had phonologically merged into ⟨ē⟩ by the early Mediaeval period.
• ee (Noun) Alternative form of e: the name of the Latin-script letter E/e.
• ef (Noun) The name of the Latin-script letter F/f.
• eff (Noun) Alternative spelling of ef; the name of the Latin-script letter F/f.
• el (Noun) The name of the Latin-script letter L/l.
• ell (Noun) The name of the Latin-script letter L/l. (more commonly el)
• em (Noun) The name of the Latin-script letter M/m.
• en (Noun) The name of the Latin-script letter N/n.
• eng (Noun) Roman alphabet ŋ: The Latin-based letter formed by combining the letters n and g, used in the IPA, Saami, Mende, and some Australian aboriginal languages. In the IPA, it represents the voiced velar nasal, the ng sound in running and rink. .
• enyay (Noun) The name of the Latin-script letter Ñ/ñ.
• es (Noun) Alternative form of ess (the name of the Latin-script letter S/s) in compounds such as "es-hook".
• esh (Noun) The IPA symbol ʃ.
• ess (Noun) The name of the Latin-script letter S/s.
• eszett (Noun) The name of the Latin-script letter ẞ/ß.
• eth (Noun) A letter (capital Ð, small ð) introduced into Old English to represent its dental fricative, then not distinguished from the letter thorn, no longer used in English but still in modern use in Icelandic, the IPA and other phonetic alphabets to represent the voiced dental fricative "th" sound as in the English word then. The letter is also used in Faroese, but is generally silent in that language.
• ethel (Noun) The letter Œ/œ, or the rune ᛟ.
• ex (Noun) The name of the Latin-script letter X/x.
• eye (Noun) The name of the Latin-script letter I/i.
• ezh (Noun) The letter Ʒ, ʒ
• gee (Noun) The name of the Latin-script letter G/g.
• haitch (Noun) Alternative form of aitch
• hard c (Noun) The "c" sound pronounced /k/, as in "cat" and "cabin", as distinct from the soft c, pronounced /s/, in "cent", "center" and "circuit".
• hard g (Noun) The plosive /g/ sound in "get", "log" and "give" as distinct from the soft g in "gem", "giraffe", "lodge" and "generation".
• hard r (Noun) The hard r at the end of the word nigger when spoken with a General American accent and considered more offensive than the African-American Vernacular English pronunciation conventionally spelled nigga, whose final sound is sometimes called soft a.
• i (Noun) The name of the Latin-script letter I/i.
• i-breve (Noun) The Latin letter "I" with the breve diacritical mark.
• intrusive r (Noun) An "r" sound that is like a linking r but occurs despite the absence of "r" in the spelling, as in Asia and the Far East in some pronunciations.
• izzard (Noun) The letter Z; zed, zee.
• jay (Noun) The name of the Latin-script letter J/j.
• jy (Noun) The name of the Latin-script letter J/j.
• kay (Noun) The name of the Latin-script letter K/k.
• kew (Noun) The name of the Latin-script letter Q/q.
• kicking kuh (Noun) The letter K, as distinct from the letter C ("curly cuh").
• kue (Noun) The name of the Latin-script letter Q/q. Alternative form of cue.
• linking r (Noun) An "r" that is pronounced only because it is closely followed by another morpheme beginning with a vowel sound, as in water ice, in non-rhotic varieties of English.
• long s (Noun) The ſ character, as distinct from the short s (which is the s character).
• magic e (Noun) A silent e (in certain English words, such as cake and time) that appears to change the pronunciation of the preceding vowel.
• medial s (Noun) Synonym of long s
• mute h (Noun) In the French language usage of the letter h at the start of a word which allows liaison with a preceding consonant.
• o (Noun) The name of the Latin-script letter O/o.
• o caudata (Noun) A form of the letter o modified by the addition of a diacritical “tail”: ⟨ǫ⟩, used in Old Norse.
• oh (Noun) The name of the Latin-script letter O/o.
• okina (Noun) The Hawaiian apostrophe-like letter (ʻ ) used to indicate the glottal stop consonant.
• pee (Noun) The name of the Latin-script letter P/p.
• que (Noun) The name of the Latin-script letter Q/q. Alternative form of cue.
• r rotunda (Noun) A curved form of the letter r, found in some medieval and fraktur scripts: ⟨ ꝛ ⟩.
• schwa (Noun) An indeterminate central vowel sound as the "a" in "about", represented as /ə/ in IPA.
• schwa (Verb) To be reduced to schwa.
• schwa (Noun) Alternative form of shva
• see (Noun) Alternative form of cee; the name of the Latin-script letter C/c.
• sharp s (Noun) The name of the Latin-script letter ẞ/ß.
• short s (Noun) The s character, as distinct from the long s — the ſ character.
• silent h (Noun) A letter ⟨h⟩ that is written but not pronounced.
• soft c (Noun) In many languages, a letter "c" which is not pronounced as a velar stop (/k/, like English "k") but as a sibilant (/s/, like English "s") or an affricative (/tʃ/, like English "ch").
• soft g (Noun) The "g" sound pronounced /dʒ/ as in "gem", "giraffe" and "generation" (or sometimes or /ʒ/ as in "genre"), as distinct from the hard g of "get" and "give".
• straight r (Noun) The usual form of the letter r (which is r), as contrasted with r rotunda (ꝛ).
• tee (Noun) The name of the Latin-script letter T/t.
• terminal s (Noun) Synonym of short s
• thorn (Noun) A letter of Latin script (capital: Þ, small: þ), borrowed from the futhark; today used only in Icelandic to represent the voiceless dental fricative, but originally used in several early Germanic scripts, including Old English where it represented the dental fricatives that are today written th (Old English did not have phonemic voicing distinctions for fricatives).
• u (Noun) The name of the Latin-script letter U/u.
• vee (Noun) The name of the Latin-script letter V/v.
• why (Noun) Alternative form of wye; the name of the Latin-script letter Y/y.
• wy (Noun) The name of the letter Y.
• wye (Noun) The name of the Latin-script letter Y/y.
• wynn (Noun) A letter of the Old English alphabet, ƿ, borrowed from the futhark and used to represent the sound of w; replaced in Middle English times by the digraph uu, which later developed into the letter w.
• yogh (Noun) A letter of the Middle English alphabet (capital Ȝ, small ȝ), in form derived from the Old English shape of the letter g, and used to represent various palatal and velar sounds.
• you (Noun) The name of the Latin-script letter U/u.
• zed (Noun) The name of the Latin-script letter Z/z.
• zee (Noun) The name of the Latin-script letter Z/z.
• ʻokina (Noun) Alternative spelling of okina

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