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Y.

The twenty-fifth letter of the French alphabet, called i grec and written in the Latin script.

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Meaning & usage

character/i/phoneme/i ɡʁɛk/letter, name
  1. The twenty-fifth letter of the French alphabet, called i grec and written in the Latin script.

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  1. a commune of Somme department, Hauts-de-France region, France.

Where this word comes from

From Old French Y, Hy, I from Latin Iacum.

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Last enriched 2026-09-10. Definitions are in English. Romanizations are shown when supplied by the source; syllable estimates are omitted for unsupported scripts.