Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

long e

Word Rarity Common

Frequency: Zipf frequency 5.17 in modern English

Syllables: long e
IPA

6

Scrabble Score

5

Letters

1

Syllables

5

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

The vowel sound /iː/ in the words "green", "seem", "eve", and "eke". (The presence of a long vowel is often signaled in spelling by a silent e that follows it, as in the "eve" and "eke" examples here, or by the fact that a subsequent consonant is single rather than doubled, as for example in meting versus setting).

Inflected Forms

long e's (plural)

Frequently Paired Words

long a short a long i short i long o short o long u short u

Antonyms

short e

Questions

What does long e mean?: The vowel sound /iː/ in the words "green", "seem", "eve", and "eke". (The presence of a long vowel is often signaled in spelling by a silent e that follows it, as in the "eve" and "eke" examples here, or by the fact that a subsequent consonant is single rather than doubled, as for example in meting versus setting).

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