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Use in English
Alphabetical word list
Retroalphabetical list  
Common misspellings  


This page lists pronunciations of English words that end in V. The list is in retroalphabetical order, that is, alphabetically beginning with the final letter of the word (in this case V) and continuing backwards through it.

The apostrophe is treated as the last letter of the alphabet, after Z. Click on the blue "Catalogs" link below the article title for a pronunciation key.[e]


in Slavonic (mostly Russian or Bulgarian) names, which comprise the great majority of words ending in v, it is pronounced -ff: -v

-óff Gorbachev

-óff Krùshchev

-nyéff Zbígniev

-nyéff Brézhnev

-réff Balákirev

-ov as -óff (such words were once spelt -off): Chékhov

Rímsky-Kŏrsakov

Rachmáninov

Mólotov

acronym: 'diesel engine road vehicle' (or: 'duty exempt...') dërv