F is the sixth letter in the basic modern Latin alphabet. Its name in English is spelled ef or eff. History Proto-Semitic W Phoenician waw Etruscan W Greek Digamma Roman F The origin of F is the Semitic letter vâv that represented the sound /v/, and originally probably represented either a "hook" or a "club". It may have been based on a comparable Egyptian hieroglyph, such as that for "mace": T3 The Phoenician form of the letter was adopted into Greek as a vowel, upsilon (w… (More on F)