The English language has three one-letter words:
- a -- the indefinite article
- I -- the first person singular nominative pronoun
- O -- an interjection used in poetry
The word E is the shortest English neologism and is a Spivak pronoun meaning he or she. It is also a common abbreviation for the drug Ecstasy.
e is a mathematical and scientific constant, referring to the base of the natural logarithm.
In gangster rap culture, G is a valid word, a contraction of "gangster", used as a term of respect.
There are also various single letter words used as abbreviations in text-speak and related uses:
- b -- "be"
- c -- "see"
- k -- "okay"
- q -- "queue"
- r -- "are"
- t -- "tea"
- u -- "you"
- v -- "very", for example: V Graham Norton
- y -- "why"
