Word.ws English Dictionary

œ

/iː/

œ letter: a ligature of vowels o and e.

Letter (1)

  1. (dated, letter, lowercase) A ligature of vowels o and e.

Letter (2) capitalized: Œ

  1. (dated, letter, uppercase) Ligature of vowels O and E, called œthel.

Forms of œ

uppercaseŒ
pluralœs
pluralœ's
lowercaseœ
pluralŒs
pluralŒ's

Questions about œ

What does œ mean?
Πmeans a ligature of vowels o and e.
What part of speech is œ?
Πis a letter.
How do you pronounce œ?
Œ is pronounced /iː/.

Words near œ in the dictionary

  1. Ōtsuki
  2. Ōyamatsumi
  3. ōzeki
  4. ōzekis
  5. ŏ
  6. œ
  7. Œchalia
  8. Œcles
  9. œcologic
  10. œcological
  11. œcologically

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: œ (page history and authors); Œ (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “œ.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/%C5%93. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.