What does closed e mean?

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closed e

Word Rarity Uncommon

Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.75 in modern English

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noun

closed o mute e open e open o

closed o mute e open e open o

What does closed e mean?: The letter e pronounced as the close-mid front unrounded vowel.

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