w

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

See also W, ա, ⴍ, and Appendix:Variations of "w"

Translingual

Wikipedia

Alternative forms

• vv (obsolete)

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.

Pronunciation

• IPA

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Symbol

Wikipedia

w

1. (IPA) voiced labial-velar approximant

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
• Turned: ʍ
• Ƿ
• ʬ

Other representations of W:

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

Signal flag:

Semaphore:

• Letter styles
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  Capital and lowercase versions of W, in normal and italic type

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  Uppercase and lowercase W in Fraktur

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English

Pronunciation

• IPA: /ˈdʌbl̩.juː/, /ˈdʌb.juː/, /ˈdʌb.jə/, /ˈdʌb/, /ˈdʌbz/, SAMPA: /"dVblju:/

Audio (US)

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• IPA: /w/
• Rhymes: -ʌbjə, -ʌb

Letter

w lowercase (uppercase 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 ^[edit]

Abbreviation

W

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

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Danish

Pronunciation

• IPA: /dɔbəlveː/, [ˈd̥ʌb̥əlˌveːˀ]

Letter

w (uppercase 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 ^[edit] bdyrj d4 4 4 5t5 g fvvffgrt565yg565vr5465

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Dutch

Pronunciation

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

Letter

w (lower case, upper case W)

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

See also

• Previous letter: v
• Next letter: x

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French

Pronunciation

• IPA: /du.blə.ve/

Letter

w (uppercase W)

1. w

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Haitian Creole

Pronoun

w

1. Contraction of ou.

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Italian

Noun

w m. and f. inv.

1. See under W

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Japanese

Alternative forms

• ｗ

Etymology 1

Short for 笑う (warau, laugh, smile).

Interjection

w

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

Etymology 2

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

Symbol

w (katakana ダブリュー, romaji daburyū)

1. Symbol for ダブル (daburu) (“double”)

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Polish

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA: /v/, /f/

Preposition

w (with locative)

1. in

w (with accusative)

1. on (time/date)

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)

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Spanish

Letter

w (lower case, upper case W)

1. The 24th letter of the Spanish alphabet.

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Swedish

Pronunciation

Letter name

• IPA: /ˈdɵbɛlveː/

Phoneme

• IPA: /v/

Letter

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.