In the English alphabet, it's the only polysyllabic letter
In its classical and modern forms, the alphabet has 24 letters, 
ordered from ... Like Latin and Cyrillic, Greek originally had only a single form of 
each letter; ..... Greek, Phoenician original, English, Greek (Ancient), Greek (
Modern)... [DOC] [TLE] W - Wikipedia [PAR] W is the 23rd letter in the modern English alphabet and the ISO basic Latin 
alphabet.