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Primary glyph rendered below. Extend with historical alternates and transliteration metadata.
e
e
Contemporary
e
Belongs to French Alphabet.
Sound correspondences
Derived from the `correspondences` table. Each entry pairs the letter with a phoneme in a specific historical context.
ə
In an open, unstressed syllable (e.g., le, menu)
Ø
Typically silent at the end of a word (e muet)
o
As trigraph 'eau', typically pronounced /o/ (e.g., beau)
ɑ̃
As digraph 'en' in a nasal context (e.g., enfant)
ɛ̃
As digraph 'ein' in a nasal context (e.g., plein)