W

See also: Appendix:Variations of "w"

Translingual

Letter

W (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  Sſs  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. (physics) work

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

• (deprecated use of |lang= parameter) IPA^(key): /ˈdʌb(əl)juː/
• (deprecated use of |lang= parameter) IPA^(key): /ˈdʌbə(l)ju/

Abbreviation

Template:rfc-header W

1. Wednesday
2. (sports) The number of wins by a team or player
3. (cricket) wickets
4. (neologism) Nickname for George W. Bush
5. west

Synonyms

• (Wednesday): Wed

Derived terms

• (sports): OTW
• (compass): NNW, NW, SSW, SW, WNW, WSW

Related terms

• (sports): L, T, OTL
• (compass): E, N, S

Letter

W (upper case, lower case w, plural Ws or W's)

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

See also

• (Latin-script letters) letter; A a, B b, C c, D d, E e, F f, G g, H h, I i, J j, K k, L l, M m, N n, O o, P p, Q q, R r, S s, T t, U u, V v, W w, X x, Y y, Z z

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Afar

Letter

1. The twentieth letter in the Afar alphabet.

See Also

• (Latin-script letters) A a, B b, T t, S s, E e, C c, K k, X x, I i, D d, Q q, R r, F f, G g, O o, L l, M m, N n, U u, W w, H h, Y y

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American Sign Language

Letter

(Stokoe W)

1. The letter W

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Chinese

simp. and trad.		W

Definitions

(deprecated template usage) W

1. (Internet slang) (deprecated template usage) Alternative form of 萬／万 (wàn).

Danish

Pronunciation

• (deprecated use of |lang= parameter) IPA^(key): /dɔbəlveː/, [ˈd̥ʌb̥əlˌveːˀ]

Letter

W (lowercase w)

1. the twenty-third letter of the Danish alphabet

See also

• (Latin-script letters) bogstav; A a (Á á), B b, C c, D d, E e (É é), F f, G g, H h, I i (Í í), J j, K k, L l, M m, N n, O o (Ó ó), P p, Q q, R r, S s, T t, U u (Ú ú), V v, W w, X x, Y y (Ý ý), Z z, Æ æ (Ǽ ǽ), Ø ø (Ǿ ǿ), Å å

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Dutch

Pronunciation

• (letter name): (deprecated use of |lang= parameter) IPA^(key): /ʋeː/
• (deprecated use of |lang= parameter)

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Letter

W (capital, lowercase w)

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

Abbreviation

W

1. (deprecated use of |lang= parameter) Abbreviation of west; west

See also

• Previous letter: V
• Next letter: X

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Esperanto

Abbreviation

W

1. (deprecated use of |lang= parameter) 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 (compare Wirtanen).

See also

• (Latin-script letters) kirjain; A a, B b, C c, D d, E e, F f, G g, H h, I i, J j, K k, L l, M m, N n, O o, P p, Q q, R r, S s (Š š), T t, U u, V v (W w), X x, Y y, Z z (Ž ž), Å å, Ä ä, Ö ö

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German

Pronunciation

• (deprecated use of |lang= parameter) IPA^(key): /veː/
• (deprecated use of |lang= parameter) Homophone: weh

Letter

W (upper case, lower case w)

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

Abbreviation

Template:rfc-header W

1. (deprecated use of |lang= parameter) 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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Ido

Pronunciation

• (deprecated use of |lang= parameter) IPA^(key): /w/

Letter

W (lower case w)

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

See also

• (Latin-script letters) litero; A a, B b, C c, D d, E e, F f, G g, H h, I i, J j, K k, L l, M m, N n, O o, P p, Q q, R r, S s, T t, U u, V v, W w, X x, Y y, Z z

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Italian

Pronunciation

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

Letter

W m or f (invariable, lower case w)

1. The twenty-third letter of the Latin alphabet, called doppia vu or vu doppia 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; A a (À à), B b, C c, D d, E e (É é, È è), F f, G g, H h, I i (Í í, Ì ì, Πî, J j, K k), L l, M m, N n, O o (Ó ó, Ò ò), P p, Q q, R r, S s, T t, U u (Ú ú, Ù ù), V v (W w, X x, Y y), Z z
• Italian alphabet on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

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Japanese

Alternative forms

• ダブル

Noun

W(ダブル) • (daburu) 

1. double

   Wプレゼント!

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Malay

Pronunciation

• (deprecated use of |lang= parameter) IPA^(key): [dabliu], [dabəliu], [dabəlju], [dablju]
• (deprecated use of |lang= parameter) IPA^(key): [w]

Letter

W

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

See also

• (Latin-script letters) A a, B b, C c, D d, E e, F f, G g, H h, I i, J j, K k, L l, M m, N n, O o, P p, Q q, R r, S s, T t, U u, V v, W w, X x, Y y, Z z

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Portuguese

Letter

W (upper case, lower case w)

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

See also

• (Latin-script letters) letra; A a (Á á, À à,  â, àã), B b, C c (Ç ç), D d, E e (É é, Ê ê), F f, G g, H h, I i (Í í), J j, K k, L l, M m, N n, O o (Ó ó, Ô ô, Õ õ), P p, Q q, R r, S s, T t, U u (Ú ú), V v, W w, X x, Y y, Z z

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Saanich

Pronunciation

• (deprecated use of |lang= parameter) IPA^(key): /w/

Letter

W

1. The thirty-third letter of the Saanich alphabet, written in the Latin script.

See also

• (Latin-script letters) A, Á, Ⱥ, B, C, Ć, Ȼ, D, E, H, I, Í, J, K, Ꝁ, Ꝃ, ₭, Ḵ, Ḱ, L, Ƚ, M, N, Ṉ, O, P, Q, S, Ś, T, Ⱦ, Ṯ, Ŧ, U, W, W̱, X, X̱, Y, Z, s, ¸

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Somali

Pronunciation

• (phoneme): (deprecated use of |lang= parameter) IPA^(key): /w/, /u̯/, /ʉ̯/
• (letter name): (deprecated use of |lang= parameter) IPA^(key): /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) ʼ, B b, T t, J j, X x, Kh kh, D d, R r, S s, Sh sh, Dh dh, C c, G g, F f, Q q, K k, L l, M m, N n, W w, H h, Y y, A a, E e, I i, O o, U u

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Spanish

Pronunciation

• (deprecated use of |lang= parameter) IPA^(key): /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)

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Zulu

Letter

W (upper case, lower case w)

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

See also

• (Latin-script letters) A a, B b, C c, D d, E e, F f, G g, H h, I i, J j, K k, L l, M m, N n, O o, P p, Q q, R r, S s, T t, U u, V v, W w, X x, Y y, Z z