T

The letter T, or t, is the twentieth in the modern English alphabet and in the ISO basic Latin alphabet. In English, it is known as tee (pronounced /ti/), plural tees. It comes from the Semitic letters taw (,,) and the Greek letter taw (tau). The voiceless alveolar plosive, which it also denotes in the International Phonetic Alphabet, is the sound it most commonly represents in English. In English-language texts, it is the most commonly used consonant and the second most common letter.

In English, t usually refers to the voiceless alveolar plosive (IPA and X-SAMPA: /t/), as in tart, tee, or ties, and is often used with aspiration at the beginning of words or before stressed vowels.

When followed by a vowel, the digraph ti often corresponds to the sound / (a voiceless palato-alveolar sibilant), as in nation, ratio, negotiation, and Croatia.

As a result of yod-coalescence, the letter t in some words corresponds to the affricate /t/. (for example, in words ending in "-ture", such as future).

The digraph th, which usually represents a dental fricative but can also represent /t/, is a common one (as in Thomas and thyme.)

The letter T is silent at the end of a few words of modern French origin, such as croquet and debut.

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