Esperanto/Appendix/Esperanto-English word list

In the Part of speech column there is an abbreviation indicating how the word is to be used. The following is a key, listing the abbreviations and explaining what they stand for:

Ŭ
In modern Esperanto, use of the letter Ŭ as a standalone consonant has fallen out of favour. It used to be common to use it for loanwords and foreign names like (for "Washington"), but the modern preference is.

The only modern use for Ŭ is in diphthongs.