Definitions for alphabet

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alphabet al·pha·bet

Spelling: [al-fuh-bet, -bit]

IPA: /ˈæl fəˌbɛt, -bɪt/

Alphabet is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 15 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 17 points.

You can make 249 anagrams from letters in alphabet (aabehlpt).

Definitions for alphabet

noun

1. the letters of a language in their customary order.
2. any system of characters or signs with which a language is written:
3. any such system for representing the sounds of a language:
4. first elements; basic facts; simplest rudiments:
5. the alphabet, a system of writing, developed in the ancient Near East and transmitted from the northwest Semites to the Greeks, in which each symbol ideally represents one sound unit in the spoken language, and from which most alphabetical scripts are derived.

Origin of alphabet

1375-1425; late Middle English alphabete Late Latin alphabētum, alteration of Greek alphábētos. See alpha, beta

Examples for alphabet

In verity he knew it as glibly as the alphabet, for he was infinitely painstaking.

He falls in love with a girl named Zoe, who “seemed to come from that foreign end of the alphabet.”

He used to boast that he had a lawsuit for every letter in the alphabet.

Especially in this America, where the alphabet is spread broadcast, and free of charge.

Best Moment: "I heard your last name was even longer but you ate all the other letters of the alphabet."

Of Greek I can decipher perhaps the greater part of the Greek alphabet.

“It sometimes seems like we have more contingency plans than there are letters in the alphabet,” he claims.

When Sendak made an alphabet book, he called it Alligators All Around.

She continues through the alphabet to L, when the table responds.

To the left was West Pakistan, where they ruled, and spoke Urdu, and wrote in an alphabet that flowed like water under wind.