What does open e mean?

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open e

Word Rarity Common

Frequency: Zipf frequency 5.07 in modern English

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noun

noun

The letter ⟨ɛ⟩.

closed e closed o mute e open o

closed e closed o mute e open o

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

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