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wau

wau noun: digamma (Ϝ/ϝ).

Noun (1)

wau (plural waus)

  1. Digamma (Ϝ/ϝ).

Proper noun capitalized: Wau

Wau

  1. A town in Papua New Guinea.
  2. A city in South Sudan.

Noun (2) capitalized: WAU

WAU (plural WAUs)

  1. (abbreviation, initialism) Initialism of weekly active user: a measurement of customer engagement, typically with an online service.

Forms of wau

Noun
pluralwaus
pluralWAUs
Proper noun
alternative formWaw
alternative formWow

Origin of wau

From the transliteration of Ancient Greek *ϝαῦ (*waû) (reconstructed from Latin vau (/⁠wau̯⁠/)), from Phoenician 𐤅 (w /⁠wāw⁠/). Doublet of vav and waw.

Questions about wau

What does wau mean?
Wau means digamma (Ϝ/ϝ).
What part of speech is wau?
Wau can be a noun or a proper noun.
What is the plural of wau?
The plural of wau is waus.

Words near wau in the dictionary

  1. watusied
  2. watusiing
  3. watusis
  4. Watwood
  5. Watwoods
  6. wau
  7. wau-wau
  8. Waubra
  9. Wauchope
  10. waucht
  11. wauchted

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Adapted from Wiktionary: wau (page history and authors); Wau (page history and authors); WAU (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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