É

É or é (e-acute) is a letter of the Latin alphabet. In English, it is used for loanwords (such as French résumé), romanization (Japanese Pokémon) (Balinese Dénpasar, Buléléng) or occasionally as a pronunciation aid in poetry, to indicate stress on an unusual syllable.

Languages may use é to indicate a certain sound (French), stress pattern (Spanish), length (Czech) or tone (Vietnamese), as well as to write loanwords or distinguish identical-sounding words (Dutch). Certain romanization systems such as pinyin (Standard Chinese) also use é for tone. Some languages use the letter only in specific contexts, such as in Indonesian dictionaries.

In Afrikaans, é is used to differentiate meaning and word types. For example: in a sentence that repeats a word (that contains the vowel e) with different meaning or specificity, the e in one of the occurrences could be replaced with é to indicate the different meaning or specificity. Furthermore, é is respected when writing foreign words, mainly from French; and it is used to add visual stress on words in the same way English might use italics.

É in Balinese is the only diacritic found form and is used to represent [/eː/] for example:
animal:
léléipi ("snake")
kédis ("bird")
verb:
subé ("done")
méméaca (reading)
number counting:
télu ("three")
eném (six).

In Catalan, é is used to represent [e], e.g. séc [sek] "fold". Similar to French and Italian, there is a contrast between é and è, the latter of which represents [ɛ] (e.g. què [kɛ] "what").

É is the 9th letter of the Czech alphabet and the 12th letter of the Slovak alphabet and represents /ɛː/

In Danish, Norwegian, and Swedish, the letter "é" is used to indicate that a terminal syllable with the vowel e is stressed, and it is often used only when it changes the meaning, common examples including én, idé, and allé. See Acute accent for a more detailed description. In addition, Danish uses é in some loanwords to represent /i/.

It is not a numbered letter in any of the 3 languages, and is not always used in digital texts due to writers' unfamiliarity with dead keys, resulting in for instance Norwegian text readers having to guess between the very different meanings of roter and server based on context.