barred d
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.70 in modern English
11
Scrabble Score
7
Letters
1
Syllables
5
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "đ (or barred d) is the only consonant modified by a diacritical mark."
- "The voiceless fricative represented by the two letters th in thin is given by the old English runic letter Thorn (spina), þ, while its voiced counterpart in then is the corresponding barred d, ð."
- "The letter Þ. þ is called ‘thorn’ and Ð, ð ‘barred ‘d’’ or ‘eth’."
- "It is right to notice that in this Epad, as indeed, Duchalais remarks in his Médailles Gauloises, p. 2, the d stands of the barred d, and has the value of th or s, as in the legend of the Gaulsih coin inscribed Veliocathes, i.e, Veliocasses; [...]."
- "Attempts to interpret this epigram have been varied, but as Tenney Frank has suggested, it is probable that tau Gallicum refers to the Celtic sound which was transliterated into Latin and Greek by such makeshifts as theta or barred D."
Inflected Forms
barred d's (plural)