Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

short i

Word Rarity Common

Frequency: Zipf frequency 5.32 in modern English

Syllables: short- i
IPA

9

Scrabble Score

6

Letters

2

Syllables

6

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

The vowel sound /ɪ/, as in the words pit and stick. (The presence of a short vowel is sometimes signaled in spelling by the doubling of a consonant after it, such as in sitting as contrasted with siting.)

noun

The name of the letter й/Й in Cyrillic alphabets.

Example Sentences

"When the Cyrillic "short i" [y] precedes the omitted fragment, the next consonant should not be dropped: for example, kaliynyy [potassium] = kaliyn., liteynyy [foundry] = liteyn."
"“j” here refers to the Cyrillic “short i” or “i-kratkoe.”"
"On the other hand, Unicode defines the Cyrillic letter short i й (U+0439) as decomposable into the Cyrillic letter i и (U+0438) and a diacritic mark (breve), although people who use these letters hardly see things that way."
"For the common endings of male given names in ий (i and short i or ï) I simply use the letter ‘i’."

Etymology

* (Cyrillic letter): Calque of Russian и кра́ткое (i krátkoje).

Inflected Forms

short i's (plural)

Frequently Paired Words

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

Antonyms

long i

Questions

What does short i mean?: The vowel sound /ɪ/, as in the words pit and stick. (The presence of a short vowel is sometimes signaled in spelling by the doubling of a consonant after it, such as in sitting as contrasted with siting.)
Where does short i come from?: * (Cyrillic letter): Calque of Russian и кра́ткое (i krátkoje).

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