English spellings > Catalogs > Retro V
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This page lists pronunciations of English words that end in V. The list is in retroalphabetical order, that is, alphabetically beginning with the final letter of the word (in this case V) and continuing backwards through it.
Headwords are on the right, but otherwise entries read in the normal way, from left to right.
The apostrophe is treated as the last letter of the alphabet, after Z.[e]
in Slavonic (mostly Russian or Bulgarian) names, which comprise the great majority of words ending in v, it is pronounced -ff: -v
-óff Gorbachev
-óff Krùshchev
-nyéff Zbígniev
-nyéff Brézhnev
-réff Balákirev
-óff (such words were once spelt -off): -ov
Chékhov
Rímsky-Kŏrsakov
Rachmáninov
Mólotov
acronym: 'diesel engine road vehicle' (or: 'duty exempt...') dërv
