See double-u in All languages combined, or Wiktionary
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"code": "ar",
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"roman": "dabelyū",
"sense": "the name of the Latin-script letter W/w",
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"roman": "ḍobliu",
"sense": "the name of the Latin-script letter W/w",
"word": "ডব্লিউ"
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"roman": "dubǎl-ve",
"sense": "the name of the Latin-script letter W/w",
"tags": [
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"roman": "dabba.lyu",
"sense": "the name of the Latin-script letter W/w",
"word": "ဒဗ္ဗလျူ"
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"word": "डब्ल्यू"
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"word": "dupla vé"
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"sense": "the name of the Latin-script letter W/w",
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"word": "we"
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"word": "we"
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"word": "wae"
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"code": "it",
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"sense": "the name of the Latin-script letter W/w",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "doppia vu"
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"_dis1": "73 27 0",
"code": "it",
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"sense": "the name of the Latin-script letter W/w",
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"feminine"
],
"word": "vu doppia"
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"_dis1": "73 27 0",
"code": "ko",
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"sense": "the name of the Latin-script letter W/w",
"word": "더블유"
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"_dis1": "73 27 0",
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"word": "dabliu"
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"word": "dabel yu"
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"roman": "ḍabal-yū",
"sense": "the name of the Latin-script letter W/w",
"word": "डबल-यू"
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"word": "ve dobla"
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"code": "pl",
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"sense": "the name of the Latin-script letter W/w",
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"code": "pt",
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"sense": "the name of the Latin-script letter W/w",
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"masculine"
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"word": "duplo vê"
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"code": "pt",
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"sense": "the name of the Latin-script letter W/w",
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"masculine"
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"word": "да́бл-ю"
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"roman": "dublʹ-vɛ́",
"sense": "the name of the Latin-script letter W/w",
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"neuter"
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"word": "дубль-вэ́"
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"code": "es",
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"sense": "the name of the Latin-script letter W/w",
"word": "doble ve"
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"code": "es",
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"sense": "the name of the Latin-script letter W/w",
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"word": "uve doble"
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"word": "ve dupla"
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"sense": "the name of the Latin-script letter W/w",
"tags": [
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"word": "doble uve / u"
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"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"lang_code": "es",
"sense": "the name of the Latin-script letter W/w",
"tags": [
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"word": "u valona (disused)"
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{
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"code": "sv",
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"sense": "the name of the Latin-script letter W/w",
"word": "ဒဗ္ဗလျူ"
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"sense": "the name of the Latin-script letter W/w",
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"code": "cs",
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"sense": "the name of the Latin-script letter W/w",
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"sense": "the name of the Latin-script letter W/w",
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"word": "ĝermana vo"
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"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"lang_code": "fi",
"sense": "the name of the Latin-script letter W/w",
"word": "kaksoisvee"
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"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
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"sense": "the name of the Latin-script letter W/w",
"tags": [
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"word": "double vé"
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{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
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"sense": "the name of the Latin-script letter W/w",
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"roman": "ntámpl’giou",
"sense": "the name of the Latin-script letter W/w",
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"word": "ντάμπλ’γιου"
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{
"code": "haw",
"lang": "Hawaiian",
"lang_code": "haw",
"sense": "the name of the Latin-script letter W/w",
"word": "wē"
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"code": "hi",
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"roman": "ḍablyū",
"sense": "the name of the Latin-script letter W/w",
"word": "डब्ल्यू"
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"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"lang_code": "hu",
"sense": "the name of the Latin-script letter W/w",
"word": "dupla vé"
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{
"code": "is",
"lang": "Icelandic",
"lang_code": "is",
"sense": "the name of the Latin-script letter W/w",
"word": "tvöfalt vaff"
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"code": "io",
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"sense": "the name of the Latin-script letter W/w",
"word": "we"
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"code": "id",
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"sense": "the name of the Latin-script letter W/w",
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"sense": "the name of the Latin-script letter W/w",
"word": "wae"
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"code": "it",
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"sense": "the name of the Latin-script letter W/w",
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"word": "doppia vu"
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"code": "it",
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"sense": "the name of the Latin-script letter W/w",
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"code": "ja",
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"roman": "daburyū",
"sense": "the name of the Latin-script letter W/w",
"word": "ダブリュー"
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"code": "ko",
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"roman": "deobeuryu",
"sense": "the name of the Latin-script letter W/w",
"word": "더블유"
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"sense": "the name of the Latin-script letter W/w",
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"sense": "the name of the Latin-script letter W/w",
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"code": "mr",
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"roman": "ḍabal-yū",
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"word": "डबल-यू"
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"sense": "the name of the Latin-script letter W/w",
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"code": "nb",
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"sense": "the name of the Latin-script letter W/w",
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"code": "oc",
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"sense": "the name of the Latin-script letter W/w",
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"word": "ve dobla"
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"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
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"sense": "the name of the Latin-script letter W/w",
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"word": "wu"
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{
"code": "pt",
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"sense": "the name of the Latin-script letter W/w",
"tags": [
"masculine"
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"word": "duplo vê"
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"code": "pt",
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"lang_code": "pt",
"sense": "the name of the Latin-script letter W/w",
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"word": "dáblio"
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"code": "pt",
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"sense": "the name of the Latin-script letter W/w",
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"word": "да́бл-ю"
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"code": "ru",
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"roman": "dublʹ-vɛ́",
"sense": "the name of the Latin-script letter W/w",
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"word": "дубль-вэ́"
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"code": "es",
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"sense": "the name of the Latin-script letter W/w",
"word": "doble ve"
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"code": "es",
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"code": "es",
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"code": "es",
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"sense": "the name of the Latin-script letter W/w",
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"word": "u valona (disused)"
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"code": "sv",
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"sense": "the name of the Latin-script letter W/w",
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"code": "tl",
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"sense": "the name of the Latin-script letter W/w",
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"sense": "the name of the Latin-script letter W/w",
"word": "wa (Abakada)"
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{
"code": "th",
"lang": "Thai",
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"roman": "dàp-bə̂n-yuu",
"sense": "the name of the Latin-script letter W/w",
"word": "ดับเบิลยู"
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{
"code": "th",
"lang": "Thai",
"lang_code": "th",
"roman": "dàp-bliu",
"sense": "the name of the Latin-script letter W/w",
"word": "ดับบลิว"
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{
"code": "cy",
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"sense": "the name of the Latin-script letter W/w",
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}
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This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable English dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2026-03-11 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2026-03-03 using wiktextract (602557e and 59dc20b). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.
If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.