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For words to appear here, they must appear in their own entry in a dictionary; words that occur only as part of a longer phrase are not included. Proper nouns are not included in the list. There are, in addition, many place names and personal names, mostly originating from Arabic-speaking countries, Albania, or China, that have a Q without a U.
English orthography typically represents vowel sounds with the five conventional vowel letters a, e, i, o, u , as well as y , which may also be a consonant depending on context. However, outside of abbreviations, there are a handful of words in English that do not have vowels, either because the vowel sounds are not written with vowel letters ...
The symbol in the International Phonetic Alphabet that represents this sound is q , and the equivalent X-SAMPA symbol is q. There is also the voiceless pre-uvular plosive [ 1 ] in some languages, which is articulated slightly more front compared with the place of articulation of the prototypical uvular consonant, though not as front as the ...
This was raised on AfD (VfD as it then was). The consensus was to keep it here, since it contains more than a list of definitions, and is about the words themselves more than the things they represent. Printed dictionaries do not contain lists of word curios, so Wiktionary should not either. Soo 16:10, 30 December 2005 (UTC)
palatal approximant [j] (yes) palatal ejective [cʼ] palatal lateral approximant [ʎ] voiceless palatal lateral fricative [𝼆] palatal nasal [ɲ] voiced palatal fricative [ʝ] voiced palatal implosive [ʄ] voiced palatal plosive [ɟ] voiceless palatal fricative [ç] (human, but not hum) voiceless palatal plosive [c] voiceless palatal lateral ...
See the list of English words containing Q not followed by U. Q is the second least frequently used letter in the English language (after Z), with a frequency of just 0.1% in words. Q has the fourth fewest English words where it is the first letter, after X, Z, and Y.
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Where ever there is a Q there is a U too; Most frequently u follows q. e.g.: Que, queen, question, quack, quark, quartz, quarry, quit, Pique, torque, macaque, exchequer. Hence the mnemonic: Where ever there is a Q there is a U too [24] (But this is violated by some words; see:List of English words containing Q not followed by U)