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characternumeralnounpronountop 100 in film dialogue

  • //ə//
  • //aɪ//
  • //ɪ//
  • //i//
  • //iː//

The ninth letter of the English alphabet, called i and written in the Latin script.

character

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    The ninth letter of the English alphabet, called i and written in the Latin script.

Etymology

From Latin i, minuscule of I.

numeral

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    The ninth numeral symbol of the English alphabet, called i and written in the Latin script.

noun

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    The name of the Latin script letter I/i.

    the position of an i-dot (the dot of an i)

    i-mutation, i-umlaut

pronoun

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    Variant of IAlternative letter-case form of I.

    Here follow ſome few lines in the original, which not underſtanding i have omitted. […] Laſtly that amidſt ſo many viciſſitudes of fortune, to which I have been expoſed, amongſt all the goods, i ſay, and evils, the joyfull and gloomy, the pleaſing, and diſagreeable circumſtances of life, thou endowedſt me with an equal, conſtant, manly, and ſuperior ſpirit on every occaſion.

    As YouTuber Alex Elmslie tweeted, “ ‘once COVID is over’ is starting to sound a lot like ‘when i fix my sleep schedule.’ ”

Etymology

From Old English iċ.

Forms

plural
is, i's, ies
The neighbouring pagesAlphabetical order follows the rules of the language, not byte values: an accent decides only between two otherwise identical words, and Spanish files Ñ as a letter of its own.

Lexical content from Wiktionary, under CC BY-SA 4.0 · Source entry · Data version 2026-08-23

Rank among the words of the OpenSubtitles 2018 corpus — film and television subtitles, so spoken rather than written usage (CC BY-SA 3.0).