W

Letter

W (lower case w)

1. The twenty-third letter of the basic modern Latin alphabet.

Symbol

W

1. (chemistry) Symbol for tungsten.
2. (metrology) Symbol for watt.
3. (biochemistry) IUPAC 1-letter abbreviation for tryptophan
4. (physics) work

Gallery

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

See also

Other representations of W:

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈdʌb(əl)juː/
• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈdʌbə(l)ju/
• (US, abbreviation, rare, nonstandard) IPA^(key): /ˈdʌb/

Abbreviation

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

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.

Letter

W

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

Letter

(transliteration needed) (Stokoe W)

1. The letter W

Pronunciation

Definitions

W

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /dɔbəlveː/, [ˈd̥ʌb̥əlˌveːˀ]

Letter

W (lowercase w)

1. the twenty-third letter of the Danish alphabet

Pronunciation

• (letter name): IPA^(key): /ʋeː/

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Letter

W (capital, lowercase w)

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

Abbreviation

W

1. Abbreviation of west; west

See also

• Previous letter: V
• Next letter: X

Abbreviation

W

1. Abbreviation of uesto (“west”).

Letter

W (upper case, lower case w)

1. The letter of the Finnish alphabet, called kaksoisvee and written in the Latin script.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /veː/
• Homophone: weh

Letter

W (upper case, lower case w)

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

Abbreviation

W

1. Abbreviation of West; west

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

(transliteration needed)

1. the letter W

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /w/

Letter

W (lower case w)

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

Pronunciation

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

Letter

W m, f (invariable, lower case w)

1. The twenty-third letter of the Latin alphabet, called doppia vu or vu doppia in Italian.

Symbol

W

1. viva, evviva (“up 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

Noun

W (katakana ダブル, rōmaji daburu)

1. Alternative spelling of ダブル (“double”)

   Wプレゼント!

   Double presents!

   Wダブル－ウィング・カタパルト

   Daburu-Wingu Kataparuto

   Double-Wing Catapult

   VWヴィダブル－タイガー・カタパルト

   Vi-Daburu-Taigā Kataparuto

   Vee-Double-Tiger Catapult

See also

• ダブリュー (daburyū)

Pronunciation

• (Name of letter) IPA^(key): [dabliu], [dabəliu], [dabəlju], [dablju]
• (Phoneme) IPA^(key): [w]

Letter

W

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

Letter

W (upper case, lower case w)

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /w/

Letter

W

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

Pronunciation

• (phoneme): IPA^(key): /w/, /u̯/, /ʉ̯/
• (letter name): 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.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˌuβe ˈðoble/, /ˈðoble βe/

Letter

W (upper case, lower case w)

1. The 24th letter of the Spanish alphabet.

Letter

W (upper case, lower case w)

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