block letter

1. 1.

   a plain hand-drawn letter

   Synonymsblock capital

   Broaderletter

Questions about block letter

What does block letter mean?

block letter means "a plain hand-drawn letter".

What is another word for block letter?

Close synonyms include block capital. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is block letter a common word?

block letter is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.