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◌͞◌

◌͞◌ letter: used to mark the digraph ⟨oo⟩ as having its 'long' sound: ⟨o͞o⟩ /uː/.

Letter

◌͞◌

  1. (diacritic) Used to mark the digraph ⟨oo⟩ as having its 'long' sound: ⟨o͞o⟩ /uː/.
  2. (dated, diacritic) Ties together the pronunciation-key digraphs a͞a, a͞e, a͞o, e͞w, c͞i, s͞i, t͞h, t͞i.

Questions about ◌͞◌

What does ◌͞◌ mean?
◌͞◌ means used to mark the digraph ⟨oo⟩ as having its 'long' sound: ⟨o͞o⟩ /uː/.
What part of speech is ◌͞◌?
◌͞◌ is a letter.

Words near ◌͞◌ in the dictionary

  1. ◌̄
  2. ◌̆
  3. ◌̈
  4. ◌̧
  5. ◌͝◌
  6. ◌͞◌
  7. ◌͟◌
  8. ◌͡◌
  9. ◌᷍◌
  10. ◌᷵
  11. ☿

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Adapted from Wiktionary: ◌͞◌ (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.

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