eth

Plural: eths

Noun

The Old English letter ð or Ð, representing a 'th' sound.
A letter (capital Ð, small ð) introduced into Old English to represent its dental fricative, then not distinguished from the letter thorn, no longer used in English but still in modern use in Icelandic, the IPA and other phonetic alphabets to represent the voiced dental fricative "th" sound as in the English word then. The letter is also used in Faroese, but is generally silent in that language.

Examples

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Origin / Etymology

The sound /ɛ/ followed by the sound of the letter, by analogy with other letter names, such as those of f, l, and m.

Scrabble Score: 6

eth: valid Scrabble (US) TWL Word
eth: valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
eth: valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary

Words With Friends Score: 5

eth: valid Words With Friends Word