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Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

long u

Word Rarity Common

Frequency: Zipf frequency 5.03 in modern English

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

Meaning

noun

The sound /juː/, as in the words "cube" and "mute". (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 cubing versus cubbing).

Inflected Forms

long ues (plural) long u's (plural)

Frequently Paired Words

long oo short oo long a short a long e short e long i short i

Antonyms

short u

Questions

What does long u mean?
The sound /juː/, as in the words "cube" and "mute". (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 cubing versus cubbing).

How to pronounce long u

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