iée

iée is a short, three-character string consisting of the Latin letters i, é, and e. It is not established as a word in any natural language and has no widely accepted meaning in linguistic corpora.

Within typography and computational linguistics, iée is sometimes used as an illustrative example to discuss how diacritics interact with base letters. It highlights encoding choices, such as representing é as a single code point U+00E9 or as a combination of e (U+0065) with the combining acute accent (U+0301), and how these choices affect normalization and search.

Pronunciation and lexical status are context-dependent; as a nonword string, iée does not have a canonical pronunciation. In hypothetical analyses, it would be treated as a sequence of three letters with an accented vowel in the middle.

Because it is not a term with established usage, iée appears mainly in theoretical discussions, typography exercises, and Unicode-themed examples. See also Unicode normalization, diacritics, Latin script, and orthography.