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thumb|Wynn in the Hildebrandslied manuscript (830s): the text reads ƿiges ƿarne. thumb|Capital wynn appears twice in this 10th century inscription in Breamore: her sƿutelað seo gecƿydrædnes ðe (Here is manifested the Word to thee). Wynn or wyn (; also spelled wen, win, ƿynn, ƿyn, ƿen, and ƿin), is a letter of the Old English alphabet, where it is used to represent the sound . It was a continued use of the Anglo-Frisian Futhorc runes. Futhorc was the native alphabet of Old English before the Latin alphabet was adopted, and it was a sibling alphabet to the Younger Futhark alphabet that Old Norse used. Both alphabets come from Elder Futhark.

== History == === The letter "W" === While the earliest Old English texts represent this phoneme with the digraph , scribes soon revived the rune wynn from Old English's native alphabet, Anglo-Frisian Futhorc, for this purpose. It remained a standard letter throughout the Anglo-Saxon era, eventually falling out of use during the Middle English period, circa 1300. In Middle English texts, it was sometimes replaced with or with a ligature form of , until it was replaced with the modern letter .