to the letter

1. 1.

   in every detail

   “the new house suited them to a T”

   Synonymsto a Tjust rightto perfection

Questions about to the letter

What does to the letter mean?

to the letter means "in every detail".

What is another word for to the letter?

Close synonyms include to a T, just right, to perfection. 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 to the letter a common word?

to the 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.