Since 1891, é is no longer used in standard Polish and is replaced by the simple e. In Polish, é was historically used for a vowel called e pochylone or e ścieśnione, sounded as, or depending on the dialect. It also represents in some dialects and represents / in area between Puck and Kartuzy. É is the 8th letter of the Kashubian alphabet and represents /ɛ/. It is used only if it is the last letter of the word except in dictionaries or when a different pronunciation may affect the meaning of a word: perché ('why'/'because', pronounced ) and pésca ('fishing', ), to be compared with caffè ('coffee', ) and pèsca ('peach', ), which have a grave accent. É is a variant of E carrying an acute accent it represents an / e/ carrying the tonic accent. In Irish the acute accent ( fada) marks a long vowel and so é is pronounced /eː/. Used in Indonesian dictionaries to denote / e/, in contrast with E, e / ə/. É is the 7th letter of the Icelandic alphabet and represents /jɛː/. É is the 10th letter of the Hungarian alphabet and represents /eː/. In Romagnol the same letter is used to represent, e.g. In Emilian, é is used to represent, e.g. In Dutch, some people use 'hé' as a greeting, like 'hey' or 'hi'. It is also used to add visual stress on words in the same way English might use italics.

It is also used to differentiate the article 'een,' equivalent to either 'a' or 'an' in English, and 'één', the number one. Like in English, é is respected when writing foreign words, mainly from French. In addition, Danish uses é in some loanwords to represent /i/. See Acute accent for a more detailed description. 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. É is the 9th letter of the Czech alphabet and the 12th letter of the Slovak alphabet and represents /ɛː/.

Capitalized e with tilde