Vowel in Creek, the letter "V" stands for . There is not necessarily a direct one-to-one correspondence between the vowel sounds of a language and the vowel letters. Many languages that use a form of the Latin alphabet have more vowel sounds than can be represented by the standard set of five vowel letters. In English spelling, the five letters "A" "E" "I" "O" and "U" can represent a variety of vowel sounds, while the letter "Y" frequently represents vowels (as in e.g., "gym", "happy", or the diphthongs in "cry", "thyme"); "W" is used in representing some diphthongs (as in "cow")
Stress and vowel reduction in English schwa. For example, the word "noted" is transcribed . The final vowel of words like "happy and "coffee is a reduced front close unrounded vowel most commonly represented with , although some dialects (including more traditional Received Pronunciation) may have . This used to be identified with the phoneme , as in . See "happy" tensing. However, some contemporary accounts regard it as a symbol representing a close front vowel that is neither the vowel of nor that of ; it occurs in contexts where the contrast between these vowels is neutralized; these contexts include unstressed prevocalic position within the