W
W Writing system Latin script Type Alphabetic and LogographicUnicode value U+0057, U+0077
Alphabetical position 23 Development Time period ~600 to present This article contains IPA phonetic symbols. Without proper rendering support , you may see question marks, boxes, or other symbols instead of Unicode characters. For an introductory guide on IPA symbols, see Help:IPA .
W is the twenty-third (number 23 ) letter in the Latin alphabet . It is pronounced as "double-(you/yoo)"[note 1] or "double-vee". It is the only letter with three syllables.
In words like away , what , write and women , the W is a consonant . In words like draw , few , low and cwm , the W is a vowel
Meanings for W
On calendars , W is most times a short letter for Wednesday .
In chemistry , W is the symbol for tungsten , after its German name, Wolfram .
In news story writing , the "five W's" are who , what , when , where and why .
In Electricity , W stands for watts
In particle physics , W stands for the W boson .
Notes
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Alphabets (list) Letters (list )
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
Ẃẃ
Ẁẁ
Ŵŵ
Ẅẅ
Ẇẇ
Ẉẉ
Ꟃꟃ
W̊ẘ
Ⱳⱳ
Two-letter combinations
Wa
Wb
Wc
Wd
We
Wf
Wg
Wh
Wi
Wj
Wk
Wl
Wm
Wn
Wo
Wp
Wq
Wr
Ws
Wt
Wu
Wv
Ww
Wx
Wy
Wz
WA
WB
WC
WD
WE
WF
WG
WH
WI
WJ
WK
WL
WM
WN
WO
WP
WQ
WR
WS
WT
WU
WV
WW
WX
WY
WZ
aW
bW
cW
dW
eW
fW
gW
hW
iW
jW
kW
lW
mW
nW
oW
pW
qW
rW
sW
tW
uW
vW
wW
xW
yW
zW
AW
BW
CW
DW
EW
FW
GW
HW
IW
JW
KW
LW
MW
NW
OW
PW
QW
RW
SW
TW
UW
VW
WW
XW
YW
ZW
Letter W-digit and digit-letter W combinations
W0
W1
W2
W3
W4
W5
W6
W7
W8
W9
0W
1W
2W
3W
4W
5W
6W
7W
8W
9W
Multigraphs
Digraphs
Ch
Dz
Dž
Gh
IJ
Lj
Ll
Ly
Nh
Nj
Ny
Sh
Sz
Th
Trigraphs Tetragraphs Pentagraphs tzsch
Keyboard layouts (list) Standards
ISO/IEC 646
Unicode
Western Latin character sets
DIN 91379: Unicode subset for Europe
Lists
Precomposed Latin characters in Unicode
Letters used in mathematics
List of typographical symbols and punctuation marks
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