E

How to type it

Left middle finger; hold Shift for the capital. Introduced in Lesson 7: Top row: e and i.

Common uses

• E is the most common letter in English text.
• E can sound short as in bed, long as in me, or silent at the end of a word like make.

Less common uses

• In hexadecimal, E stands for the value fourteen.
• The lowercase e is also the symbol for Euler's number, about 2.718.
• Georges Perec wrote a whole novel, La Disparition, without using the letter e.