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/wɪn/ · noun
A letter of the Old English alphabet, ƿ, borrowed from the futhark and used to represent the sound of w; replaced in Middle English times by the digraph uu, which later developed into the letter w..
The Norman scribes gradually replaced wynn by u, uu, vv, and w itself.
Use wynn when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Wynn means A letter of the Old English alphabet, ƿ, borrowed from the futhark and used to represent the sound of w; replaced in Middle English times by the digraph uu, which later developed into the letter w..
The closest synonym depends on the sentence and intended sense.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
The Norman scribes gradually replaced wynn by u, uu, vv, and w itself.
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