edh
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: 1.95 in modern English
7
Scrabble Score
3
Letters
1
Syllables
3
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
Alternative form of eth.
Example Sentences
- "The Faeroese language is a dialect of Icelandic and, like Icelandic, employes the letter edh (Ð ð). Unlike Icelandic, however the Faeroese ð has the sound of y (as in "yes") before i, v before u, and is silent in all other cases."
- "The Romans uses th to write the Greek letter theta. In Old English the sound /th/ was usually spelled with the thorn or edh, very rarely with th. Under the influence of the Norman scribes the runic thorn and edh died away, being replaced in time by the th."