Global InformationW information
| W | |||||
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| W w | |||||
| Usage | |||||
| Writing system | Latin script | ||||
| Type | Alphabetic and Logographic | ||||
| Phonetic usage | [w] [v] [β] [u] [uː] [ʊ] [ɔ] [ʋ] [ʕʷ] [ʙ] [◌ʷ] [ɣ] [f] | ||||
| Unicode codepoint | U+0057, U+0077 | ||||
| Alphabetical position | 23 | ||||
| History | |||||
| Development |
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| Time period | ~600 to present | ||||
| Descendants | • ʍ • ɯ ɰ • ₩ | ||||
| Sisters | F U Ѵ У Ў Ұ Ү ו و ܘ וּ וֹ ࠅ 𐎆 𐡅 ወ વ ૂ ુ उ | ||||
| Other | |||||
| Other letters commonly used with | w(x) | ||||
| Writing direction | Left-to-Right | ||||
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| ISO basic Latin alphabet |
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| AaBbCcDdEeFfGgHhIiJjKkLlMmNnOoPpQqRrSsTtUuVvWwXxYyZz |
W, or w, is the twenty-third letter of the Latin alphabet, used in the modern English alphabet, the alphabets of other western European languages and others worldwide. Its name in English is double-u,[in 1] plural double-ues.[1][2]
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- ^ "W", Oxford English Dictionary, 2nd edition (1989); 'W", Oxford English Dictionary, 2nd edition (1989); Merriam-Webster's Third New International Dictionary of the English Language, Unabridged (1993) Merriam Webster
- ^ Brown & Kiddle (1870) The institutes of grammar, p. 19.
Double-ues is the plural of the name of the letter; the plural of the letter itself is written W's, Ws, w's, or ws.