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Primary glyph rendered below. Extend with historical alternates and transliteration metadata.
s
esse
Contemporary
esse
Belongs to French Alphabet.
Sound correspondences
Derived from the `correspondences` table. Each entry pairs the letter with a phoneme in a specific historical context.
s
At the beginning of a word, after a consonant, or when doubled (ss)
z
Between two vowels (intervocalic)
Ø
Silent when word-final (e.g., nous, pas), except in some words (e.g., fils, ours)