A

A (/eɪ/; lower case a) is the first letter of the Latin alphabet, as used in English. It is a vowel letter.

It is also a word in itself, being the indefinite article when immediately preceding a vowel sound.

You may refer to the following articles:

• Decoding the letter A
• So-called “short a”

• IPA phoneme /æ/

• So-called “long a”

• IPA phoneme /eɪ/

• IPA phoneme /ɑː/

See also[edit]

• IPA phoneme /aɪ/
• IPA phoneme /aʊ/