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17th letter of the Latin alphabet
the letter

Q, or q, is the seventeenth letter of the Latin alphabet, used in the modern English alphabet, the alphabets of other western European languages and others worldwide. Its name in English is pronounced /'//k//j//uː/, most commonly spelled cue, but also kew, kue and que.

In English, the digraph most often denotes the cluster /k//w/; however, in borrowings from French, it represents /k/, as in 'plaque'. See the list of English words containing Q not followed by U. Q is the second least frequently used letter in the English language (after Z), with a frequency of just 0.1% in words. Q has the fourth fewest English words where it is the first letter, after X, Z, and Y.

In most European languages written in the Latin script, such as in Romance and Germanic languages, appears almost exclusively in the digraph In French, Occitan, Catalan and Portuguese, represents or ; in Spanish, it represents replaces for before front vowels and , since in those languages represents a fricative or affricate before front vowels. In Italian represents (where is the semivowel allophone of ). In Albanian, Q represents as in Shqip. It is not considered to be part of the Cornish (Standard Written Form), Estonian, Icelandic, Irish, Latvian, Lithuanian, Polish, Serbo Croatian, Scottish Gaelic, Slovenian, Turkish, or Welsh alphabets. has a wide variety of other pronunciations in some European languages and in non European languages that have adopted the Latin alphabet.

The International Phonetic Alphabet uses for the voiceless uvular stop.

The capital letter Q is used as the currency sign for the Guatemalan quetzal. The Roman numeral Q is sometimes used to represent the number 500,000. In the video game Quake the letter is stylized as the logo for the franchise.