s
/ɛs/
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s letter: the nineteenth letter of the English alphabet, called ess and written in the Latin script. Also the abbreviation of scruple.
Letter (1)
Numeral (1)
Letter (2) capitalized: S
Numeral (2) capitalized: S
Noun capitalized: S
S (countable and uncountable, plural Ss)
- Initialism of south.
- Initialism of season (group of episodes of a series).
- I watched S01 through 03. I have yet to watch the S04.
- The pilot episode is S01E01.
- Initialism of small (the manufactured size or an item of that size).
- Initialism of soprano.
- Initialism of subtitles.
- Initialism of sextodecimo (book size, 15-17.5 cm in height).
- Initialism of sadist.
Adjective capitalized: S
S (not comparable)
- Initialism of small (of the manufactured size).
- Initialism of satisfactory.
Proper noun capitalized: S
S
- An axiomatic set theory, developed by logician George Boolos, in which several of the axioms of ZF are derivable as theorems.
- S has no axiom of extensionality and identity is absent from the other S axioms.
Also used as
s is also the abbreviation of scruple.
s is also the abbreviation of strange quark.
s is also the alternative form of s..
Synonyms of s
Forms of s
| Letter | |
|---|---|
| uppercase | S |
| plural | ss |
| plural | s's |
| lowercase | s |
| plural | Ss |
| plural | S's |
| Numeral | |
| uppercase | S |
| plural | ss |
| plural | s's |
| lowercase | s |
| plural | Ss |
| plural | S's |
| Noun | |
| plural | Ss |
Origin of s
Abbreviations.
Abbreviation.
From the first letter of set and of stage, two fundamental concepts of the theory.
Words formed from s
- closed round s
- descending s
- impure s
- insular s
- long s
- medial s
- round s
- s-aorist
- s-band
- s-block
- s-bomb
- s-cis
- s-commerce
- s-f
- sharp s
- short s
- s-mobile
- s-perfect
- s-process
- s-risk
- s-selection
- s-t cut
- s-trans
- s-word
- tall s
- terminal s
- trailing s
- binor-S
- bisphenol S
- curcumin S
- H-S chart
- Mode S
- S/N ratio
- S-curve
- S-factor
- S-hook
- S-nitroso-N-acetylpenicillamine
- S-plasty
- split S
- S rank
- S-side
- S-tier
- S-turn
- S twist
- S-Video
- s-hole
Words that rhyme with s
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- SMS
- success
- compress
- largesse
- ness
- profess
- confess
- distress
- regress
- depress
- excess
- guess
- prepossess
- undress
- CBS
- ingress
- oppress
- redress
- transgress
- assess
- cess
- duress
- fess
- fluoresce
- Hesse
- less
- mayoress
- obsess
- tress
- unless
- yes
- accresce
- acquiesce
- aggress
- BESS
- caress
- clothes press
- congress
- defervesce
- digress
- ess
- foulness
- Hess
- intumesce
- jess
- lazy S
- liquesce
- repress
Questions about s
- What does s mean?
- S means the nineteenth letter of the English alphabet, called ess and written in the Latin script.
- What part of speech is s?
- S can be a letter, a numeral, a noun or an adjective.
- How do you pronounce s?
- S is pronounced /ɛs/.
Words near s in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: s (page history and authors); S (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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