letter of the alphabet

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   the conventional characters of the alphabet used to represent speech

   “his grandmother taught him his letters”

   Synonymsletteralphabetic character

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Questions about letter of the alphabet

What does letter of the alphabet mean?

letter of the alphabet means "the conventional characters of the alphabet used to represent speech".

What is another word for letter of the alphabet?

Close synonyms include letter, alphabetic character. 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 letter of the alphabet a common word?

letter of the alphabet 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.