long ess
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.82 in modern English
8
Scrabble Score
7
Letters
1
Syllables
6
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
Alternative form of long s.
Example Sentences
- "Long ess, ſ, is used at the beginning or in the middle of a word or syllable;"
- "There are also a few examples of books printed at around this time in which the long and short esses appear willy-nilly, due, no doubt, to an attempt to abandon the older usage, which partly failed due to carelessness, habit or lack of understanding on the part of the compositors involved."
- "“Short esses” (s) appear at the end of words, and “long esses” are never used for an upper case S."