w

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

Translingual

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

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
• 

  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^(key): /ˈdʌbl̩.juː/, /ˈdʌb.juː/, /ˈdʌb.jə/, /ˈdʌb/, /ˈdʌbz/

Audio (US)

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• IPA^(key): /w/
• Rhymes: -ʌbjə, -ʌb

Letter

w (lower case, upper case W)

1. The twenty-third 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

Abbreviation

W

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

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Danish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /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

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Dutch

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -eː
• (letter name): IPA^(key): /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^(key): /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, f (invariable)

1. See under W

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Japanese

Etymology 1

Short for 笑う (warau, “laugh, smile”).

Interjection

w

1. (Internet, slang) LOL; an expression of amusement or laughter.

Usage notes

Commonly used to ridicule someone.

Etymology 2

Near homophone of ダブル (daburu, “double”).

Symbol

w (katakana ダブリュー, romaji daburyū)

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

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Lower Sorbian

Etymology

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

Alternative forms

• we (especially before labial consonants and consonant clusters)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /v/, /f/

Preposition

w (with locative)

1. in

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Malay

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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Norwegian

Pronunciation

• (letter name): IPA^(key): /ˈdɔbəlt.ˌʋeː/
• (phoneme): IPA^(key): /ʋ/, /v/

Letter

w

1. The 23rd letter of the Norwegian alphabet.

Usage notes

• Only appears in loanwords from e.g. German.

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Polish

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• Audio

  (file)

Pronunciation depends on a following word.

• (isolated) IPA^(key): /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^(key): /ˈdɵbɛlveː/

Phoneme

• IPA^(key): /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.

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Welsh

Alternative forms

• (in negative statements; also in affirmative statements in North Wales): dw
• (in affirmative statements): rw

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [u]

Verb

w

1. (colloquial, South Wales) first-person singular present of bod (in affirmative or negative statements)

   W i yn y car. — I’m in the car.

   W i ddim yn hapus. — I’m not happy.

Related terms

• ydw (interrogative)