cedillated-e
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
15
Scrabble Score
11
Letters
4
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
Example Sentences
- "But one form of spelling variation that is often normalized even in modern critical editions of Old English texts is scribes’ use of ę (sometimes called “cedillated-e” or “e-caudata”), and the relative invisibility of the graph in our edited texts has no doubt disabled some potentially instructive commentary on a small aspect of scribal behavior."
- "Ideally, hooked-e would not be represented as , but since some of the early editions printed and , we were forced to follow them (fortunately, the total number of hooked-e characters was small). Editorial practice with regard to (variously, hooked-e, e-caudata or cedillated-e) is extremely inconsistent (Cain)."