x

Letter

x (upper case X)

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

Etymology 2

Etymology 3

Gallery

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

See also

Other representations of X:

Pronunciation

• (letter name): IPA^(key): /ɛks/

Audio (US)

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• (phoneme): IPA^(key): /ks/, /ɡz/, /z/, /kʃ/, /ɡʒ/

Letter

x (lower case, upper case X, plural x's)

1. The twenty-fourth letter of the English alphabet, called ex and written in the Latin script.

Adjective

x

1. Alternative letter-case form of X (“intersex or non-binary, in passports and identification documents”)

Conjunction

x

1. (fandom slang) Used between the names of two characters to denote a ship, particularly in anime, manga, and video games.
   • 1998 August 31, Greg Upchurch, “[Eva][Fanfic] Aright”, in rec.arts.anime.creative, Usenet‎:

     If there is anyone in the audience who can't stand someone pushing a Shinji x Rei thing, I know you want to quit on this fic now.

   • 2002 July 7, Arnold Kim, “Re: Favorite couples??”, in alt.tv.buffy-v-slayer, Usenet‎:

     I'm a fairly big Angel x Buffy fan, though I'm not a particularly big fan of Angel. They just work well together, IMO.

   • 2003 April 29, sephigirl, “Re: [OT] Character selections was: Re: [POLL] Identification”, in alt.fan.utena, Usenet‎:

     Tho' my doujinshi is a Cloud x Sephiroth - yes you read that right - Cloud's name is first. ^^!

   • For more examples of usage of this term, see Citations:x.
2. (music) Used in place of and in artist collaborations.

   Taska Black x DROELOE, Steve Aoki x Lauren Jauregui, etc.

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
• -x

Letter

x

1. The eighth letter of the Afar alphabet, written in the Latin script.

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

Pronunciation

• (phoneme) IPA^(key): /x/

Letter

x lower case (upper case X)

1. The twelfth letter of the Azerbaijani alphabet, written in the Latin script.

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -ɪks
• (letter name): IPA^(key): /ɪks/

Letter

x (lower case, upper case X)

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

See also

• Previous letter: w
• Next letter: y

Pronunciation

• (letter name) IPA^(key): /iks/

Letter

x (lower case, upper case X)

1. The twenty-fifth letter of the French alphabet, written in the Latin script.
   • 1837, Louis Viardot, L’Ingénieux Hidalgo Don Quichotte de la Manche‎^{fr.Wikisource}, translation of El ingenioso hidalgo Don Quijote de la Mancha by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, Chapter I:

     Avec ces propos et d’autres semblables, le pauvre gentilhomme perdait le jugement. Il passait les nuits et se donnait la torture pour les comprendre, pour les approfondir, pour leur tirer le sens des entrailles, ce qu’Aristote lui-même n’aurait pu faire, s’il fût ressuscité tout exprès pour cela.

     With these passages and other similar ones, the poor gentleman lost his judgement. He spent his nights and tortured himself to understand them, to consider them more deeply, to take from them their deepest meaning, which Aristotle himself would not have been able to do, had he been resurrected for that very purpose.

Pronunciation

• (context pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ks/
• (letter name) IPA^(key): /kse/

Letter

x (upper case X)

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

Etymology

The multiplication sign × (which is visually similar to the letter x) is pronounced per in Italian.

Noun

x m, f (invariable)

1. x; the 24th letter of the Latin alphabet

Preposition

x

1. (text messaging, slang) Abbreviation of per (“for”).

Usage notes

This convention is not only used for the preposition but also used within words such as, xké (“perché”), xò (“però”).

Letter

x (lower case, upper case X)

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

Letter

x (lower case, upper case X)

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

Pronunciation

• (letter name): IPA^(key): /eks/, /ɛks/
• (phoneme): IPA^(key): /ks/, /s/

Letter

x

1. The 24th letter of the Norwegian alphabet.

Pronunciation

• Audio (BR)

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Letter

x (lower case, upper case X)

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /iks/

Letter

x (lowercase x, capital X)

1. The twenty-seventh letter of the Romanian alphabet representing the double-consonant sounds /ɡz/, /ks/. Preceded by v and followed by z.

Pronunciation

• (phoneme) IPA^(key): /ks/, /s/, /x/
• (letter name) IPA^(key): /ˈekis/

  • Audio (Spain)

    (file)

Letter

x (lower case, upper case X)

1. The 25th letter of the Spanish alphabet.

Abbreviation

x

1. (text messaging, Internet) Abbreviation of "por"

Letter

x (lower case, upper case X)

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