ie
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.80 in modern English
2
Scrabble Score
2
Letters
1
Syllables
2
Unique Chars
Meaning
adv
Alternative form of i.e.
name
name
Initialism of Iarnród Éireann (“Irish Railways”).
name
adj
Example Sentences
- "Make sure your music software is stand-alone, too (ie, it doesn’t have to be loaded into a utility—we don’t want to have to mess around with bits of wire or umpteen different programs just to hear your maestropiece)."
- "“Connexion” is the etymological (ie, “correct”) spelling. That is to say, our word is derived from an actual Latin noun, cf. deflexion, inflexion, and reflexion. […] And it might make life easier to abolish the letter “x”. But why should we cut off the fascinating roots of our words? I should carry on preferring “connexion”."
- "more widely and more freely in Indian English (IE) than in other international varieties"
- "I examine three theses: (1) that IE is a substratum-laden"
- "Indian English (IE) is considered"
- "IE linguistics"
Usage
Frequently Paired Words
Synonyms
i.e.
id est