F

The sixth letter of the Latin alphabet, F developed from the digraph FH that stood for /f/.

The Etruscans were the inventors of this digraph; F on its own stood for /w/ in Etruscan as in Greek (where the letter F ? called Digamma in Greek ? has disappeared due to the fact that the /w/ phoneme itself disappeared.) The origin of F is the Semitic letter wâw that also represented /w/ and originally probably represented a hook or a club.

Foxtrot represents the letter F in the NATO phonetic alphabet.

F is also:

• The chemical symbol for fluorine.
• The symbol (F) for farad, the SI derived unit for electric capacitance.
• The variable f, for frequency
• A musical note
• The stock symbol for Ford Motor Company
• F is often used to denote a failing mark or grade.

Two-letter combinations starting with F:

• fa fb fc fd fe ff fg fh fi fj fk fl fm fn fo fp fq fr fs ft fu fv fw fx fy fz

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