withacutee

Withacutee is a neologistic label used in typography and linguistics to refer to the letter e bearing an acute diacritic, commonly written as é. The term is not an official Unicode name and is not widely adopted in scholarly literature; it mainly appears in informal discussions, teaching contexts, or worldbuilding discussions as a convenient descriptive label for the concept.

In actual orthographies, the character é represents a Latin small letter e with acute; it appears in several languages, including French and Portuguese, and in loanwords in other languages. The uppercase form is É. While aligned with the general idea of an e with an acute accent, the name withacutee is not used in standard linguistic references, which typically rely on the precise Unicode name and code point.

Encoding and digital representation: The canonical Unicode code point for lowercase é is U+00E9, and for uppercase É is U+00C9. In HTML, the character can be represented as é or as é. In Unicode normalization, é can be decomposed into e (U+0065) plus a combining acute accent (U+0301) in NFD form, which is then reassembled to É in NFC form.

Function and phonology: The acute accent over e commonly signals a specific vowel quality or stress pattern, depending on the language. In French, é typically indicates a closed front vowel and distinct pronunciation from è or e in other contexts; in other languages, the accent serves similar but language-specific purposes.

See also: diacritics, Latin script, Unicode, é (Latin small letter e with acute).