w

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Letter w.svg
Unicode name LATIN SMALL LETTER W
Codepoint U+0077
v ← Basic Latin → x

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[edit] Translingual

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[edit] Alternative forms

  • vv (obsolete)

[edit] Letter

w lower case (upper case W)

  1. The twenty-third letter of the basic modern Latin alphabet.
  2. The first letter of callsigns allocated to American broadcast television and radio stations east of the Mississippi river.

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Wikipedia

w

  1. (IPA) voiced labial-velar approximant

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Other representations of W:


[edit] English

[edit] Pronunciation

  • IPA: /ˈdʌbl̩.juː/, /ˈdʌb.juː/, /ˈdʌb.jə/, /ˈdʌb/, /ˈdʌbz/, SAMPA: /"dVblju:/
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w lowercase (uppercase W)

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

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W

  1. watt
  2. west
  3. (cricket) wide
  4. white
  5. witness
  6. work

[edit] Danish

[edit] Pronunciation

  • IPA: /dɔbəlveː/, [ˈd̥ʌb̥əlˌveːˀ]

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w (uppercase W)

  1. the twenty-third letter of the Danish alphabet

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[edit] Dutch

[edit] Pronunciation

  • Rhymes: -eː
  • (letter name): IPA: /ʋeː/

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w (lower case, upper case W)

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

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  • Previous letter: v
  • Next letter: x

[edit] French

[edit] Pronunciation

  • IPA: /du.blə.ve/

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w (uppercase W)

  1. w

[edit] Haitian Creole

[edit] Pronoun

w

  1. Contraction of ou.

[edit] Italian

[edit] Noun

w m. and f. inv.

  1. See under W

[edit] Japanese

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[edit] Etymology 1

Short for 笑う (warau, laugh, smile).

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w

  1. (Internet, slang) LOL; an expression of laughter, commonly to ridicule someone.

[edit] Etymology 2

Near homophone to ダブル (daburu) (“double”)

[edit] Symbol

w (katakana ダブリュー, romaji daburyū)

  1. Symbol for ダブル (daburu) (“double”)

[edit] Polish

[edit] Etymology

From Proto-Slavic *vъ(n), from Proto-Indo-European *h₁en

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  • IPA: /v/, /f/

[edit] Preposition

w (with locative)

  1. in

w (with accusative)

  1. on (time/date)

[edit] Usage notes

  • Some combinations of sounds, mostly consonant clusters at the beginning of the following noun, require that this preposition is used in longer form we. Examples:
  • we włosach (in the hair)
  • we Wrocławiu (in Wrocław)
but:
  • w Warszawie (in Warsaw)

[edit] Spanish

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w (lower case, upper case W)

  1. The 24th letter of the Spanish alphabet.

[edit] Swedish

[edit] Pronunciation

Letter name
  • IPA: /ˈdɵbɛlveː/
Phoneme

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w lower case (upper case W)

  1. The twenty-third letter of the Swedish alphabet, called dubbel-ve and written in the Latin script. Previously treated as a variant of the letter v and not as its own independent letter.
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