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Not all words in this list are acceptable in Scrabble tournament games. Scrabble tournaments around the world use their own sets of words from selected dictionaries that might not contain all the words listed here. Qi is the most commonly played word in Scrabble tournaments, [10] and was added to the official North American word list in 2006. [11]
キ (ki) ー In rōmaji, this is written pokkī, with the sokuon represented by the doubled k consonant. 待って (matte), the te form of the verb 待つ (matsu, "wait"), is composed of: 待 (ma) っ (sokuon) て (te) In the rōmaji rendering, matte, the sokuon is represented by the doubling of the t consonant.
Both represent [ki] and are derived from a simplification of the 幾 kanji. The hiragana character き, like さ , is drawn with the lower line either connected or disconnected. A dakuten may be added to the character; this transforms it into ぎ in hiragana, ギ in katakana, and gi in Hepburn romanization .
A lexical set is a group of words that share a particular phonological feature.. A phoneme is a basic unit of sound in a language that can distinguish one word from another. . Most commonly, following the work of phonetician John C. Wells, a lexical set is a class of words in a language that share a certain vowel pho
Some English words, including thrash, three, throat, and throw, start with the voiceless dental fricative /θ/, the liquid /r/, or the /r/ cluster (/θ/+/r/). This cluster example in Proto-Germanic has a counterpart in which /θ/ was followed by /l/. In early North and West Germanic, the /l/ cluster disappeared. This suggests that clusters are ...
This list of all two-letter combinations includes 1352 (2 × 26 2) of the possible 2704 (52 2) combinations of upper and lower case from the modern core Latin alphabet.A two-letter combination in bold means that the link links straight to a Wikipedia article (not a disambiguation page).
to distinguish from Norwegian: uses letter combination øj; frequent use of æ; spellings of borrowed foreign words are retained (in particular use of c), such as centralstation. doubling of consonants common (but not at the end of words, unlike Norwegian and Swedish), but doubling of vowels very rare
American English pronunciation of "no highway cowboys" /noʊ ˈhaɪweɪ ˈkaʊbɔɪz/, showing five diphthongs: / oʊ, aɪ, eɪ, aʊ, ɔɪ / A diphthong (/ ˈ d ɪ f θ ɒ ŋ, ˈ d ɪ p-/ DIF-thong, DIP-; [1] from Ancient Greek δίφθογγος (díphthongos) 'two sounds', from δίς (dís) 'twice' and φθόγγος (phthóngos) 'sound'), also known as a gliding vowel or a vowel glide, is ...