alphabetic

Valid in Scrabble

Scrabble points
19
Words With Friends
22
Letters
10
Pronunciation
/ˌæl.fəˈbɛt.ɪk/

Definition of alphabetic

2 senses · 2 parts of speech · etymology included

adj

  1. Of or relating to an alphabet, especially the characters A to Z, both uppercase and lowercase.
    “Seycong or his linguistic consultants could use as a model the alphabetic or abugidic scripts of India and Inner Asia […]”
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adj

  1. Of or relating to an alphabet, especially the characters A to Z, both uppercase and lowercase.
    “Seycong or his linguistic consultants could use as a model the alphabetic or abugidic scripts of India and Inner Asia […]”

noun

  1. An alphabetic character; a letter of the alphabet.
    “Upper case alphabetics can be composed of two characters: (1) a shift character; and (2) the desired alphabetic character.”
    “The natural sequence of alphabetics is A, B, C, ..., X, Y, Z. For some codes, the binary bit patterns of the alphabetics are in the same relative sequence as the alphabetics.”
    “Subparagraphs are identified by lower case alphabetics followed by numerics and alphabetics in parentheses and then underlined numerics and alphabetics.”

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Etymology

Partly from French alphabétique and partly from its etymon Latin alphabēticus. By surface analysis, alphabet + -ic.

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8-letter words

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7-letter words

19 words

6-letter words

37 words

5-letter words

80 words

4-letter words

59 words

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