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J, or j, is the tenth letter of the Latin alphabet, used in the modern English alphabet, the alphabets of other western European languages and others worldwide. Its usual name in English is jay (pronounced / ˈ dʒ eɪ / ⓘ ), with a now-uncommon variant jy / ˈ dʒ aɪ / .
A one-letter word is a word composed of a single letter. The application of this apparently simple definition is complex, due to the difficulty of defining the notions of word and letter. One-letter words have an uncertain status in language theory, dictionaries and social usage.
Greek and Latin letters have a variety of modern uses in mathematics, science, and engineering. People and objects are sometimes named after letters, for one of these reasons: The letter is an abbreviation, e.g. "G-man" as slang for a Federal Bureau of Investigation agent, arose as short for "Government Man"
This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 6 March 2025. Latin-script alphabet consisting of 26 letters English alphabet An English-language pangram written with the FF Dax Regular typeface Script type Alphabet Time period c. 16th century – present Languages English Related scripts Parent systems (Proto-writing) Egyptian hieroglyphs Proto ...
letter only used rarely, in loanwords: j; commonly accented letters: â, ê, î, ô, û, ŵ, ŷ, although acute (´), grave (`), and dieresis (¨) accents can hypothetically occur on all vowels; word endings: -ion, -au, -wr, -wyr; y is the most common letter in the language; w between consonants (w in fact represents a vowel in the Welsh language)
In this table, Bold text The first cell in each row gives a symbol; The second is a link to the article that details that symbol, using its Unicode standard name or common alias.
j and j 2 (or ¯) are also used for the complex cube roots of unity; j, a number with the property j 2 = +1, used in the definition of the split-complex numbers; j, the second imaginary unit of a quaternion; j, an index variable in a matrix; The j-invariant, a modular function
Letters in English orthography positioned at one location within a specific word usually represent a particular phoneme. For example, at / ˈ æ t / consists of 2 letters a and t , which represent /æ/ and /t/, respectively. Sequences of letters may perform this role as well as single letters.