W

Unicode name	LATIN CAPITAL LETTER W
Codepoint	U+0057
V ← Basic Latin → X

See also Appendix:Variations of "w"

Translingual

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Letter

W upper case (lower case w)

1. The twenty-third letter of the basic modern Latin alphabet.

See also

• (Latin script):  Aa  Bb  Cc  Dd  Ee  Ff  Gg  Hh  Ii  Jj  Kk  Ll  Mm  Nn  Oo  Pp  Qq  Rr  Ss  Tt  Uu  Vv  Ww  Xx  Yy  Zz
• (Variations of letter W):  Ẃẃ  Ẁẁ  Ŵŵ  Ẅẅ  Ẇẇ  Ẉẉ  W̊ẘ  Ⱳⱳ  ᴡ  Ｗｗ
• (Letter combinations):  Ꜳꜳ  Ææ  ᴁᴭ  Ǽǽ  Ǣǣ  Ꜵꜵ  Åå  Ꜷꜷ  Ꜹꜹ  Ꜻꜻ  Ꜽꜽ  ct  ȸ  DZDzdz  DŽDždž  ᴂᵆ  ᴔ  &  ff  fi  ffi  fl  ffl  ℔  IJij  LJLjlj  Ỻỻ  Ŋŋ  NJNjnj  Œœ  ɶ  Ꝏꝏ  Ȣȣᴕ  ȹ  ẞß  ſtst  ᵫ  Ůů  Ww  Ꝡꝡ

Symbol

W

1. (chemistry) Symbol for tungsten.
2. (metrology) Symbol for watt.
3. (biochemistry) IUPAC 1-letter abbreviation for tryptophan
4. (US) The initial letter of the call sign of radio stations east of the Mississippi (see also K)

See also

Other representations of W:

NATO phonetic: Whiskey Morse code: ·–– Braille: ⠺ ASL Manual: W

Signal flag:

Semaphore:

• Letter styles
• 

  Capital and lowercase versions of W, in normal and italic type

• 

  Uppercase and lowercase W in Fraktur

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English

Pronunciation

• IPA: /ˈdʌb(əl)juː/, X-SAMPA: /"dVb(@l)ju:/

Abbreviation

W

1. Wednesday
2. (sports) The statistic for the number of wins by a team or player limited by some criteria (e.g. this season, at home, on turf)
3. (cricket) wickets
4. (neologism) Nickname for George W. Bush
5. (baseball) Wins; number of games won by a particular pitcher.

Derived terms

• (sports): OTW

See also

• (sports): L , T , OTL

Letter

W uppercase (lowercase w)

1. The twenty-second letter of the English alphabet, called double U and written in the Latin script.

See also

• (Latin script letters) letter; Aa, Bb, Cc, Dd, Ee, Ff, Gg, Hh, Ii, Jj, Kk, Ll, Mm, Nn, Oo, Pp, Qq, Rr, Ss, Tt, Uu, Vv, Ww, Xx, Yy, Zz

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American Sign Language

Letter

(Stokoe W)

1. The letter W

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Danish

Pronunciation

• IPA: /dɔbəlveː/, [ˈd̥ʌb̥əlˌveːˀ]

Letter

W (lowercase w)

1. the twenty-third letter of the Danish alphabet

See also

• (Latin script letters) bogstav; Aa, Bb, Cc, Dd, Ee, Ff, Gg, Hh, Ii, Jj, Kk, Ll, Mm, Nn, Oo, Pp, Qq, Rr, Ss, Tt, Uu, Vv, Ww, Xx, Yy, Zz, Ææ, Øø, Åå

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Dutch

Pronunciation

• (letter name): IPA: /ʋeː/

Letter

W (capital, lowercase w)

1. The twenty-third letter of the Dutch alphabet.

See also

• Previous letter: V
• Next letter: X

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Esperanto

Abbreviation

W

1. Abbreviation of uesto (“west”).

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Finnish

Letter

W upper case (lower case w)

1. The letter of the Finnish alphabet, called kaksoisvee and written in the Latin script.

Usage notes

• In the Finnish alphabet, W is a variant of V.
• Used only in loanwords and proper names with old spelling (c.f. Wirtanen).

See also

• (Latin script letters) letter; Aa, Bb, Cc, Dd, Ee, Ff, Gg, Hh, Ii, Jj, Kk, Ll, Mm, Nn, Oo, Pp, Qq, Rr, Ss, Šš, Tt, Uu, Vv, Ww, Xx, Yy, Zz, Žž, Åå, Ää, Öö

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German

Pronunciation

• IPA: /veː/
• Homophone: weh

Letter

W (upper case, lower case w)

1. The twenty-third letter of the German alphabet.

Abbreviation

W

1. Abbreviation of West; west

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German Sign Language

Etymology

Related to the French Sign Language sign for "W".

Production

This one-handed GSL sign is produced as follows:

• Posture the dominant hand in the “W” shape.

Letter

1. the letter W

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Italian

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Pronunciation

• (name of letter) IPA: /vudˈdoppjo/, /ˈdoppjovu/
• (name of letter, for brevity in common acronyms) IPA: /vu/
• Homophones: V, vu
• (phonetic realization) IPA: [v], [w] (varies depending on the source language of the loanword)

Letter

W m and f (invariable, lower case w)

1. The twenty-third letter of the Latin alphabet, called doppio vu or vu doppio in Italian.

Usage notes

• The letter W is not considered part of the Italian alphabet. It is found mainly in loanwords.

Symbol

W

1. viva, evviva (“up with”)

Antonyms

• M (down with)

See also

• (Latin script letters) lettera; Aa, Bb, Cc, Dd, Ee, Ff, Gg, Hh, Ii, (Jj), (Kk), Ll, Mm, Nn, Oo, Pp, Qq, Rr, Ss, Tt, Uu, Vv, (Ww), (Xx), (Yy), Zz
• Italian alphabet on Wikipedia.Wikipedia:Italian alphabet

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Malay

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Pronunciation

• (Name of letter) IPA: [dabliu], [dabəliu], [dabəlju], [dablju]
• (Phoneme) IPA: [w]

Letter

W

1. The twenty-third letter of the Malay alphabet, written in the Latin script.

See also

• (Latin script letters) Aa, Bb, Cc, Dd, Ee, Ff, Gg, Hh, Ii, Jj, Kk, Ll, Mm, Nn, Oo, Pp, Qq, Rr, Ss, Tt, Uu, Vv, Ww, Xx, Yy, Zz

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Somali

Pronunciation

• (phoneme): IPA: /w/, /u̯/, /ʉ̯/
• (letter name): IPA: /wæʉ̯/

Letter

W upper case (lower case w)

1. The twentieth letter of the Somali alphabet, called waw and written in the Latin script.

Usage notes

1. The twentieth letter of the Somali alphabet, which follows Arabic abjad order. It is preceded by N and followed by H.

See also

• (Latin script letters) '', Bb, Tt, Jj, Xx, KHkh, Dd, Rr, Ss, SHsh, DHdh, Cc, Gg, Ff, Qq, Kk, Ll, Mm, Nn, Ww, Hh, Yy, Aa, Ee, Ii, Oo, Uu

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Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA: /ˈðoble βe/

Letter

W (upper case, lower case w)

1. The 24th letter of the Spanish alphabet.

Synonyms

• doble u (Colombia, Mexico, Puerto Rico)
• doble ve (Latin America)
• uve doble (Spain)
• ve doble (Peru)