Word.ws English Dictionary

curly v

curly v noun: synonym of v with hook (“Ʋ/ʋ”).

Noun

curly v (plural curly v's)

  1. Synonym of v with hook (“Ʋ/ʋ”).
    • Curly v.
      A labio-dental approximant. Keep distinct from [v] and [u]; a loop on the right stem helps maintin the distinction.1991, Henry Rogers, “Calligraphy”, in Theoretical and practical phonetics, page 346
    Synonyms:
    v with hook

Synonyms of curly v

  • v with hook

Forms of curly v

pluralcurly v's

Questions about curly v

What does curly v mean?
Curly v means synonym of v with hook (“Ʋ/ʋ”).
What part of speech is curly v?
Curly v is a noun.
What is the plural of curly v?
The plural of curly v is curly v's.

Words near curly v in the dictionary

  1. curly mesquites
  2. curly plumeless thistle
  3. curly quote
  4. curly quotes
  5. curly top
  6. curly v
  7. curly wig
  8. curly-brace language
  9. curly-brace languages
  10. curly-braces language
  11. curly-braces languages

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: curly v (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: “curly v.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/curly_v. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.