w

Letter

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

Ligature

 * 1) ⟨uu⟩
 * 2) ⟨vv⟩

Symbol

 * 1)  a voiced labial-velar (or, more precisely, labialized velar) approximant.
 * 2)  labialization (-coloring) or a consonant or vowel; or a weak, fleeting or epenthetic.
 * an [u] off-glide (diphthong) or a protruded (as opposed to compressed) vowel, e.g. Swedish.
 * 1)  labialization.

Pronunciation




Etymology 2
Abbreviations.


 * 1)  the sound sequence /aʊ̯/.

Noun

 * 1) watt
 * 2) west
 * 3) witness
 * 4) work

Adjective

 * 1)  wide
 * 2) white
 * 3) (from noun sense 5) successful, admirable, good
 * W rizz.

Preposition

 * 1) with a wing (on the Enneagram)
 * When Sharon took the Enneagram test, she came out as a 3w2.
 * 1) with a wing (on the Enneagram)
 * When Sharon took the Enneagram test, she came out as a 3w2.
 * When Sharon took the Enneagram test, she came out as a 3w2.

Usage notes

 * Used chiefly in recent loanwords and foreign proper nouns.

Letter

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

Particle

 * 1)  not;

Noun

 * 1) area, district
 * 2) administrative district
 * 3) nome

Usage notes

 * In the Finnish alphabet, is a variant of.
 * Used only in loanwords, old/archaic language and proper names with old spelling; see the usage notes for.

Letter

 * 1) w

Pronoun

 * 1) Contraction of.

Letter

 * 1) the twenty-third letter of the Latin alphabet, called ' or ' in Italian

Usage notes

 * The letter W is not considered part of the Italian alphabet. It is found mainly in loanwords.

Etymology
Short for.

Punctuation mark

 * 1)  LOL; an expression of amusement or laughter.

Usage notes

 * can be used multiple times in a row, as in the examples above; it is sometimes repeated to quite lengthy extents.

Etymology 2
.

Preposition

 * 1) ; in, at, on
 * 2) ; into, in, to
 * 3) ; in, as, in a group of
 * 4) ; in, on

Pronunciation

 * Silent before consonants and word-initially before $⟨o⟩$ and $⟨u⟩$ (but not $⟨ó⟩$)
 * Silent before consonants and word-initially before $⟨w⟩$ and $⟨knw, kw, ngw, nkw, pw⟩$ (but not ⇭⇭⇭)

Etymology 2
From, from.

Preposition

 * 1) in

Conjunction

 * 1)  before or after a vowel.

Etymology
.

Preposition

 * 1) ; in, at, on
 * 2) ; in, on
 * 3) ; into, in, to
 * 1) ; into, in, to
 * 1) ; into, in, to

Usage notes
The letter ⇭⇭⇭ is used for the phoneme, but also for before a back vowel, where that is pronounced.

Letter

 * 1) The 23rd letter of the Norwegian alphabet.

Usage notes

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

Etymology
..

Preposition

 * 1) ; into
 * 2) ; to, towards
 * 3) ; for
 * 4) ; as
 * 5) ; in
 * 6) ; into
 * 7) ; at
 * 8) ; in
 * 9) ; in
 * 10) ; because of
 * 11) ; in
 * 1) ; at
 * 2) ; in
 * 3) ; in
 * 4) ; because of
 * 5) ; in
 * 1) ; in
 * 1) ; in

Pronunciation
, or if devoiced

Etymology 2
.

Preposition

 * 1) ; in, at, on
 * 2) ; in, on
 * 3) ; in
 * 4) ; at
 * 5) ; into, in, to
 * 6) ; into
 * 7)  decorated with
 * 8) ; within, in the space of, in
 * 9) ; in, as, in a group of
 * 1) ; at
 * 2) ; into, in, to
 * 3) ; into
 * 4)  decorated with
 * 5) ; within, in the space of, in
 * 6) ; in, as, in a group of
 * 1) ; into
 * 2)  decorated with
 * 3) ; within, in the space of, in
 * 4) ; in, as, in a group of
 * 1)  decorated with
 * 2) ; within, in the space of, in
 * 3) ; in, as, in a group of
 * 1) ; within, in the space of, in
 * 2) ; in, as, in a group of
 * 1) ; within, in the space of, in
 * 2) ; in, as, in a group of
 * 1) ; in, as, in a group of
 * 1) ; in, as, in a group of

Usage notes
Some combinations of sounds, chiefly consonant clusters at the beginning of the following noun, require that this preposition be used in the vocalized form. Examples: But:

Pronunciation
Letter name:

Phoneme:

Usage notes
Used chiefly in recent loanwords and foreign proper nouns.

Etymology 2
.

Preposition

 * 1) ; in, at, on
 * 2) ; into, in, to
 * 3) ; in
 * 4)  decorated with
 * 5) ; dressed in
 * 6) ; within, in the space of, in
 * 7) ; in, on
 * 8) ; in, as, in a group of
 * 1) ; in, as, in a group of

Etymology
.

Preposition

 * 1) ; into, in, to
 * 2) ; in, on
 * 3) ; in, at, on
 * 4) ; in, on

Letter

 * 1) the 24th letter of the Spanish alphabet

Pronunciation

 * Letter name


 * Phoneme

Letter

 * 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.

Usage notes

 * In blackletter typography, w was commonly used instead of v. When printers (gradually during the 19th century) changed to Latin typography, spelling changed from w to v, except in some family names. However, this change does not count as a spelling reform.
 * In many abbreviations, Swedes say v (ve, as in German) instead of w (dubbelve), e.g. BMW (be emm ve), VW (ve ve), WC (ve se), WHO (ve hå o), WWW (ve ve ve).

Noun

 * 1)  weed (marijuana)

Etymology
. Each pronunciation has a different source:
 * Filipino alphabet pronunciation is influenced by.
 * Abakada alphabet pronunciation is influenced by Baybayin character.

Formerly, the letter was used to represent  in the Spanish-based orthography.

Letter

 * 1)  It is preceded by  and followed by .

Mutation

 * w cannot be mutated but when representing a vowel, does take, for example with the word :

Derived terms

 * Digraph sequences:

Usage notes
This word is usually found in conjunction with the pronoun and so may be pronounced as part of a diphthong  or as.

Noun

 * 1) quail

Verb

 * 1) scatter

Pronunciation

 * (pronounced ),

Usage notes
After a consonant, the letter indicates labialization.

Derived terms

 * Labialized ⇭⇭⇭.

Noun

 * 1) gum (in the eye)