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In most dialects of British English, it is either an open-mid back rounded vowel or an open back rounded vowel in American English, it is most commonly an unrounded back to a central vowel. In English there is also a 'short' ⟨o⟩ as in fox, / ɒ/, which sounds slightly different in different dialects. The 'long' ⟨o⟩ as in boat is actually most often a diphthong / oʊ/ (realized dialectically anywhere from to ). Like the other English vowel letters, it has associated 'long' and 'short' pronunciations. The letter ⟨o⟩ is the fourth most common letter in the English alphabet. Greek omicron gave rise to the corresponding Cyrillic letter O and the early italic letter to runic ᛟ. In Greek, a variation of the form later came to differentiate this long sound ( Omega, meaning 'large O') from the short o (Omicron, meaning 'small o'). The letter was adopted with the value in the Old Italic alphabets, including the early Latin alphabet. The use of this Phoenician letter for a vowel sound is due to the early Greek alphabets, which adopted the letter as O 'omicron' to represent the vowel /o/.

Its original sound value was that of a consonant, probably, the sound represented by the cognate Arabic letter ع ʿayn. ʿeyn, meaning 'eye', and indeed its shape originates simply as a drawing of a human eye (possibly inspired by the corresponding Egyptian hieroglyph, cf. Its graphic form has remained fairly constant from Phoenician times until today.

History Late Renaissance or early Baroque design of an O, from 1627 Its name in English is o (pronounced / ˈ oʊ/), plural oes. O, or o, is the 15th letter and the fourth vowel letter in the Latin alphabet, used in the modern English alphabet, the alphabets of other western European languages and others worldwide.

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