ſ
Word Rarity
Common
Frequency: Zipf frequency 5.86 in modern English
0
Scrabble Score
1
Letters
1
Syllables
1
Unique Chars
Meaning
character
The nineteenth letter of the English alphabet, called long s, medial s or descending s and written in the Latin script.
Archaic
Example Sentences
- "VVritten in Latine by M.Iohn Caluine, and tranſlated into Engliſ he according to the authors laſt edition, By thomas norton. […] And the redemptor ſ hall come to Sion,and vnto thẽ that turne frõ their vvickednes in Iacob."
- "God is not onely a bare permiſsiue agent in an euill worke, but a powerfull effectour of the ſame[…]"
- "The Lord Commiſsioner ſheweth, that it is his Majeſties will that the Parliament be prorogated to the 2. of June, and that by his Majeſties authority only: of the prorogation, the prætenſion is pag. 30."
- "So upon the 20. of August Mr. Frederick Schzdel a Merchant, ſet ſail in the good Ship called the Brown Fiſh, very richly freighted with all ſorts of Merchandizes from Taiwan to Canton; and after nine days ſail, landed in the Canton River, at a place called Heytamon."
- "THE FIRST VISION OF THE Algouazil (or Catchpole) Poſſest."
- "Dor. I have been told, noble Squire, that you once impos’d a certain lady for Dulcinea on your maſter; now what think you if this young lady here ſhould perſonate that incomparable princeſs? / Jez. Who, I? / San. Adod! your princeſsſhip has hit it; for he has never ſeen this Dulcinea, nor has any body elſe, that I can hear of;"