F
6th letter of the Latin alphabet / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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This article is about the letter of the alphabet. For other uses, see F (disambiguation). Not to be confused with the long s, ſ.
For technical reasons, terms beginning with "F#" redirect here. For other uses, see F-sharp and F*@bois.
F, or f, is the sixth letter of the Latin alphabet, used in the modern English alphabet, the alphabets of other western European languages and others worldwide. Its name in English is ef[note 1] (pronounced /ˈɛf/), and the plural is efs.[1]
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Writing system | Latin script |
Type | Alphabetic |
Language of origin | Latin language |
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Unicode codepoint | U+0046 U+0066 |
Alphabetical position | 6 Numerical value: 6, 15 |
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Time period | ~-700 to present |
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Other letters commonly used with | f(x) |
Associated numbers | 6, 15 |
Writing direction | Left-to-Right |
This article contains phonetic transcriptions in the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA). For an introductory guide on IPA symbols, see Help:IPA. For the distinction between [ ], / / and ⟨ ⟩, see IPA § Brackets and transcription delimiters. |
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