short ess
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.82 in modern English
11
Scrabble Score
8
Letters
2
Syllables
6
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
Alternative form of short s.
Example Sentences
- "Short ess, s, is used only at the end 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."