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long i

Word Rarity Common

Frequency: Zipf frequency 5.79 in modern English

Syllables
long i
IPA
6
Scrabble Score
5
Letters
1
Syllables
5
Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

the English vowel sound /aɪ/ in the words "fine" and "like", often conventionally written ⟨ī⟩. (The presence of a long vowel is often signaled in spelling by a silent e that follows it, as in the examples here, or by the fact that a subsequent consonant is single rather than doubled, as for example in siting versus sitting).

noun

a tall variant of the letter i, ⟨ꟾ⟩, used in all-capital Latin inscriptions and manuscripts in classical antiquity and the Early Middle Ages for a long vowel /iː/. (Other long vowels were marked with apices.)

Inflected Forms

long i's (plural)

Frequently Paired Words

long a short a long e short e long o short o long u short u

Synonyms

i longa

Antonyms

short i

Questions

What does long i mean?
the English vowel sound /aɪ/ in the words "fine" and "like", often conventionally written ⟨ī⟩. (The presence of a long vowel is often signaled in spelling by a silent e that follows it, as in the examples here, or by the fact that a subsequent consonant is single rather than doubled, as for example in siting versus sitting).

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