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Definition: Alphabet |
AlphabetNoun1. A character set that includes letters. 2. The elementary stages of any subject (usually plural); "he mastered the rudiments of geometry". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "alphabet" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1550. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
19th Century Satire | A toy for the children found in books, blocks, pictures and vermicelli soup. Contains 26 letters and only three syllables. Source: Foolish Dictionary, 1904. |
Computing | An ordered character set, the order of which has been agreed upon. Source: European Union. (references) |
Literature | Alphabet This is the only word compounded of letters only. The Greek alpha (a) beta (b); our A B C (book), etc. The number of letters in an alphabet varies in different languages. Thus there are:. Source: Brewer's Dictionary. |
Math | The set of all possible symbols in an application. For instance, input characters used by a finite state machine, letters making up strings in a language, or symbols in a pattern element. In some cases, an alphabet may be infinite. (references) |
Post & Telecom | A table of correspondence between an agreed set of characters and the signals which represent them ; a table of correspondence between the written characters together with some of the functions, e. g. spacing, line feed, inversion, etc. , and the telegraph signals which represent them. Source: European Union. (references) |
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Abkhaz alphabet. Abkhaz alphabet uses Cyrillic script, extended to adjust to the extensive consonant system of Abkhaz language.
Abkhaz alphabet Letter Transliteration IPA Value Letter Transliteration IPA Value Аа a [a] Мм m [m] Бб b [b] Нн n [n] Вв v [v] Оо o [o] Гг g [g] Ҩҩ o̩ [ɥ] Гьгь g' [gj] Пп p [p,] Ҕҕ g̍ [ɣ] Ҧҧ ṗ [p] Ҕьҕь g̍' [ɣj] Рр r [r] Дд d [d] Сс s [s] Дəдə do [dw] Тт t [t,] Џџ ǰ [dʐ] Тəтə to [tw,] Џьџь ǰ' [ʥ] Ҭҭ t̢ [t] Ее e [e] Ҭəҭə t̢o [tw] Ҽҽ c̍ [ʦ̢] Уу u [w, u] Ҿҿ c̨̍ [ʦ̢,] Фф f [f] Жж ž [ʐ] Хх x [x] Жьжь ž' [ʑ] Хьхь x' [xj] Жəжə žo [ʐw] Ҳҳ x̢ [ћ] Зз z [z] Ҳəҳə x̢o [ћw] Ʒʒ ʒ [ʣ] Цц c [ʦ] Ʒəʒə ʒo [ʣw] Цəцə co [ʦw] Ии i [i, j] Ҵҵ c̅ [ʦ,] Кк k [k,] Ҵəҵə c̅o [ʦw,] Кькь k' [kj,] Чч č [tɕ] Ққ k̢ [k] Ӌӌ č̢ [tɕ,] Қьқь k̢' [kj] Шш š [ʂ] Ҟҟ k̄ [q,] Шьшь š' [ɕ] Ҟьҟь k̄' [qj,] Шəшə šo [ʂw] Лл l [l] Ыы y [ə] Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Abkhaz alphabet."
(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
An alphabet is a complete standardized set of letters--basic written symbols--each of which roughly represents or represented historically a phoneme of a spoken language. This as distinguished from other writing systems such as ideograms, in which symbols represent complete ideas, and syllabaries, in which each symbol represents a syllable. The word alphabet itself is derived from alpha and beta, the first two symbols of the Greek alphabet.
Among alphabets, one may distinguish the older abjads that only recorded consonants, and the newer alphabet of the Greek type called simply alphabet and the abugida.
Each language may establish certain general rules that govern the association between letters and phonemes, but, depending on the language, these rules may or may not be consistently followed. In a perfectly phonological alphabet, the phonemes and letters would correspond perfectly in two directions: a writer could predict the spelling of a word given its pronunciation, and a speaker could predict the pronunciation of a word given its spelling. However, languages often evolve independently of their writing systems, and writing systems have been borrowed for languages they were not designed for, so the degree to which letters of an alphabet correspond to phonemes of a language varies greatly from one language to another and even within a single language.
Languages may fail to achieve a one-to-one correspondence between letters and sounds in any of several ways:
National languages generally elect to address the problem of dialects by simply associating the alphabet with the national standard. However, with international languages with wide variations in its dialects, such as English, it would be impossible to represent the language in all its variations with a single phonetic alphabet.
- A language may represent a given phoneme with a combination of letters rather than just a single letter.
- A language may represent the same phoneme with two different letters or combinations of letters.
- A language may spell some words with unpronounced letters that exist for historical or other reasons.
- Pronunciation of individual words may change according to the presence of surrounding words in a sentence.
- Different dialects of a language may pronounce different phonemes for the same word.
Some national languages like Finnish and Spanish have a very regular spelling system with close to a one-to-one correspondence between letters and phonemes. The Italian language has no verb corresponding to 'spell:' scriversi ('is written') suffices, because a correct pronunciation exactly corresponds to a correct orthography. In standard Spanish, it is possible to predict the pronunciation of a word from its spelling, but not vice versa; this is because certain phonemes can be represented in more than one way, but a given letter is consistently represented. French, with its silent letters and its heavy use of nasal vowels and elision, may seem to lack much correspondence between spelling and pronunciation, but its rules on pronunciation are actually consistent and predictable with a fair degree of accuracy. At the other extreme, however, are languages such as English, where the spelling of many words simply has to be memorized as they do not correspond to sounds in a consistent way, because the Great Vowel Shift in English occurred after orthography was established. However, even English has general rules that predict pronunciation from spelling, and these rules are successful a majority of the time.
The first alphabet that has been recovered was developed in Ugarit (in modern Syria), about 1500 BCE, initially to represent the sounds of a Semitic language using cuneiform. It was inherited by the Canaanites (see early Semitic alphabet) and Phoenicians, and nearly all subsequent alphabets are derived from it or inspired by it, directly or indirectly. Of special note among its descendants is the Greek alphabet, derived from Minoan Linear B (used as a syllabary) with the innovation of separate symbols for vowels (Semitic didn't need them). Most subsequent alphabets with vowels are derived from the early Greek alphabets. The most popular alphabet in use today is a modern 26-letter version of the Roman alphabet, used by the English language and most European languages. Writing without using a particular letter or letters is a type of constrained writing called a lipogram. In modern linguistic usage, the term Latin alphabet is usually used to refer to the modern derivations from the alphabet used by the Romans (i.e. the Roman alphabet).
An alphabet also serves to establish an order among letters that can be used for sorting entries in lists, called collating. Note that the order does not have to be constant among different languages using this alphabet; for examples see Latin alphabet, "Collating in other languages".
- A, B, C, D, E, F, G, H, I, J, K, L, M, N, O, P, Q, R, S, T, U, V, W, X, Y, Z
In recent years the Unicode initiative has attempted to collate most of the world's known writing systems into a single character encoding. As well as its primary purpose of standardising computer processing of non-Roman scripts, the Unicode project has provided a focus for script-related scholarship.
The sounds of speech of all languages of the world can be written by a rather small universal phonetic alphabet. A standard for this is the International Phonetic Alphabet.
The smallest known alphabet is the Rotokas alphabet, which contains only 11 letters. The largest known non-ideographic alphabet is Armenian with 39 letters. (Syllabaries typically include many more symbols.)
List of alphabets
- Africa
- Arabic
- Aramaic
- Armenian
- Bengali
- Bopomofo
- Brahmi
- Burmese
- Cherokee
- Coptic
- Cree
- Cyrillic - Russian
- Deseret
- Devangari
- Ethiopic
- Etruscan
- Glagolitic
- Gothic
- Greek
- Gujarati
- Gurmukhi
- Hebrew
- Iberian
- Inuktitut
- Old Italic
- Kannada
- Khmer
- Korean
- Lao
- Malayalam
- Meroitic
- Mongolian
- Ogham
- Oriya
- Phoenician
- Roman alphabet (also known as Latin alphabet)
- Albanian
- Catalan
- Danish
- Dutch
- Esperanto
- Estonian
- Finnish
- French
- German
- Hawaiian
- Hungarian
- Icelandic
- Initial Teaching Alphabet
- Italian
- Latvian
- Norwegian
- Romaji (Japanese written with Roman script)
- Romanian
- Rotokas
- Scottish Gaelic
- Slovenian
- Spanish
- Swedish
- Turkish
- Welsh
- Runic
- Shavian
- Siddham
- Sinhala
- Syriac
- Tamil
- Telugu
- Thaana
- Thai
- Tibetan
- Tengwar
- Tifinagh
- Old Turkic
- Ugaritic
- Vinca (suggested)
Special alphabets
See also:
- Braille
- Morse code
- NATO Phonetic
- Manual
- abjad, abugida
- Alphabets derived from the Latin
- syllabary
- transliteration
- character set
External links
- Alphabetic Writing Systems
- Alphabets of Europe
- The Unicode Consortium
- Evolution of alphabets animation by Prof. Robert Fradkin at the University of Maryland
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Alphabet."
(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
The modern Hebrew alphabet developed from the Aramaic alphabet. Hebrew speakers call their alphabet the "aleph-bet" (aleph and bet are the first two letters of the Hebrew alphabet).
Archeological evidence indicates that the original Hebrew script is related to the Phoenician script that was in wide use in the Middle East region at the end of the 2nd millennium B.C, and which eventually evolved in Europe into the Greek and Roman alphabets. During the Babylonian exile (6th century B.C), the Jews adopted a more modern form of the same script from the Babylonians (who inherited it from the Assyrians). It was the "square" alphabet that is still used today. "Square"-related scripts were in use all over the Middle East for several hundred years, but following the rise of Christianity (and later, the rise of Islam), they gave way to the Roman and Arabic alphabets, respectively. According to traditional Jewish thought, the Hebrew writing system contained all the current letters at the time of Moses, although Ezra is known for his contribution to the square form.
Following the decline of Hebrew and Aramaic as the spoken languages of the Jews, the Hebrew alphabet was adopted in order to write down the languages of the Jewish diaspora (Yiddish and Judaeo-Spanish), probably because it was easier to teach Tanakh to the children that way. The Hebrew alphabet was retained as the official alphabet used for writing down the Hebrew language during its rebirth in the end of the 19th century.
The Hebrew alphabet has only one case, but some letters have special final forms used only at the end of a word. This is similar to Arabic, although much simpler. Hebrew is an abjad script: vowels are normally not indicated. There is a set of diacritical symbols that can be used to annotate a word with its vowels---this is done, for instance, when teaching the language to children. There are also cantillation marks used to indicate how scriptural passages should be chanted, and decorative "crowns" used only for Torah scrolls.
Hebrew letters may also be used as numbers; see the entry on Hebrew numerals. This use of letters as numbers is used in Kabbalah (Jewish mysticism) in a practice known as gematria.
See also: History of the Hebrew language.
Letters of the modern Hebrew Alphabet:
Name Sound Character Final
alef /glottal stop/ א
bet /b or v/ ב
gimel /g/ ג
dalet /d/ ד
he /h/ ה
vav /v/ ו
zayin /z/ ז
chet /kh/1 ח
tet /t/ ט
yod /y/ י
kaf /k or kh/ כ ך
lamed /l/ ל
mem /m/ מ ם
nun /n/ נ ן
samech /s/ ס
ayin /guttural2/ ע
pe /p or f/ פ ף
tsadi /ts/ צ ץ
kof /q/ ק
resh /r/ ר
shin /sh or s/ ש
tav /t/ ת
Notes 1. /kh/ here means IPA /x/, or the guttural sound in Scots loch. 2. Ayin is silent for many speakers, or pharyngeal like Arabic ain for those with more contact with Arabic.
Two sounds are given for the letters bet, kaf, and pe, and these depend on the position of the letter and surrounding vowels. When vowel signs are used, the hard sounds /b k p/ are indicated by the dot called dagesh inside them, and the soft sounds /v kh f/ lack dagesh. The /kh/ sound is normally the same as that of the letter chet, and the /v/ sound of bet is the same as that of vav.
The two sounds given for shin are not predictable in the same way. The /sh/ value is much more common. They are distinguished in vowelled texts by the position of a dot above them. The /s/ sound is the same as that of the letter samech.
The letter tet and tav are both /t/.
Kof is usually pronounced /k/, except by some speakers in closer contact with Arabic, who keep the older /q/ sound.
Ancient Hebrew
Some of the variations in sound mentioned above are due to a systematic feature of Ancient Hebrew. The six consonants /p t k b d g/ were pronounced differently depending on their position. (The full details are very complex; this summary omits some points.) They were pronounced as stops [p t k b d g] at the beginning of a syllable, or when doubled. They were pronounced as fricatives [f T x v D G] when preceded by a vowel. The stop and double pronunciations were indicated by the dot dagesh. In Modern Hebrew the sounds [D] and [G] have reverted to [d] and [g], and [T] has become either [t] or [s], so only the remaining three letters show variation.
Vav was a semivowel /w/ (as in English, not as in German).
Chet and ayin were pharyngeal fricatives, tsadi was an emphatic s, and kof was /q/. All these are common Semitic sounds.
Sin (the /s/ variant of shin) was originally different from both shin and samech, but had become /s/ the same as samech by the time the vowel pointing was devised.
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Hebrew alphabet."
Synonyms: AlphabetSynonyms: first principle (n), first rudiment (n), rudiment (n). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Beginning | Rudiments, elements, outlines, grammar, alphabet, ABCE. |
Letter | Noun: letter; character; hieroglyphic; (writing); type; (printing); capitals; digraph, trigraph; ideogram, ideograph; majuscule, minuscule; majuscule, minuscule; alphabet, ABC, abecedary, christcross-row. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
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Screenplays | Perhaps letters of the alphabet. (Batman Forever; writing credit: Bob Kane; Lee Batchler) Baby, if I could rearrange the alphabet, I'd put 'U' and 'I' together (Family Guy; writing credit: Dolores Payás) It's called the alphabet. (Buffy the Vampire Slayer; writing credit: Doreen Spicer) | |
Lyrics | THE ALPHABET RUNS RIGHT FROM A TO ZED (Never Ever; performing artist: All Saints) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Alphabet Soup (1971) DADA-Manifest - DA DA - ein Alphabet des deutschen Dadaismus (1969) The Alphabet (1968) Korean Alphabet (1967) Alphabet (1966) | |
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 | The alphabet song of "forty-one date". Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Nursery rhymes for infant industries. An alphabet of joyous trusts--no. 5 / F. Opper. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Negro mother teaching children numbers and alphabet in home of sharecropper. Transylvania, Louisiana. Credit: Library of Congress. | ||
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| "Deaf Alphabet - Ä" by Luis Alves Commentary: "Deaf Alphabet - One Hand --------------------------- Notice: You can use this image, but please send me an e-mail if you use it, I really like to know when and where it's used, thanks :-)." | "Grungy alphabet" by Ariel C. Commentary: "Grungy alphabet." |
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| Author | Quotation |
Johann Kaspar Lavater | Action, looks, words, steps, form the alphabet by which you may spell character. |
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| Title | Author | Quote |
A Christmas Carol | Dickens, Charles | But she joined in the forfeits, and loved her love to admiration with all the letters of the alphabet. |
Les Miserables | Hugo, Victor | We might almost say that affinities commence with the letters of the alphabet. |
Gulliver's Travels | Swift, Jonathan | To help my memory, I formed all I learned into the English alphabet, and wrote the words down with the translations |
Walden | Thoreau, Henry David | I know not the first letter of the alphabet. |
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| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Health | The sequential order of the bases in any given gene determines the message the gene contains, just as the letters of the alphabet can be combined in different ways to form distinct words and sentences. (references) | |
Business | Businesspersons should always have their cards (preferably bilingual with the Korean side facing up) ready and should treat the exchange of the Korean counterpart’s card with respect by closely examining it. (It is a sign of respect to receive and present items with both hands should that person be of equal or higher status and/or age.) For historical reasons, Chinese characters, which Koreans can generally understand (though they have their own alphabet) are regarded as more sophisticated and can further serve for business trips to Korea, China, and Japan. (references) | |
Economic History | Ukraine | Trademarks registered in a foreign language or alphabet are also permitted. (references) |
South Korea | Chinese characters (Hanja) were used to write Korean before the Korean Hangul alphabet was invented in the 15th century. (references) | |
Estonia | Written with the Latin alphabet, Estonian is the language of the Estonian people and the official language of the country. (references) | |
Minorities | Moldova | State schools are required to use the Cyrillic alphabet when teaching Moldovan/Romanian. (references) |
Moldova | After delaying its opening and threatening to keep it closed, separatist authorities allowed the Romanian Language School (Latin alphabet) in Tiraspol to open in 1999 without restriction from the authorities. (references) | |
Moldova | As a result of an agreement between the Government and the separatist authorities, eight schools in the separatist region use the Latin alphabet, and the salaries of teachers and textbooks are supplied by the Moldovan Ministry of Education. (references) | |
Travel | Bulgaria | Bulgarian is a Slavic language that uses the Cyrillic alphabet. (references) |
Russia | Signs are in Russian only, so it is helpful at least to learn the Cyrillic alphabet before you come. (references) | |
Romania | This language, which uses the Latin alphabet and is a Romance language, evolved from the Latin used in the Roman colony of Dacia. (references) | |
Lexicography | Devil's Dictionary | SYMBOLIC, adj. Pertaining to symbols and the use and interpretation of symbols. They say 'tis conscience feels compunction; I hold that that's the stomach's function, For of the sinner I have noted That when he's sinned he's somewhat bloated, Or ill some other ghastly fashion Within that bowel of compassion. True, I believe the only sinner Is he that eats a shabby dinner. You know how Adam with good reason, For eating apples out of season, Was "cursed." But that is all symbolic: The truth is, Adam had the colic. G.J. T T, the twentieth letter of the English alphabet, was by the Greeks absurdly called tau. In the alphabet whence ours comes it had the form of the rude corkscrew of the period, and when it stood alone (which was more than the Phoenicians could always do) signified Tallegal, translated by the learned Dr. Brownrigg, "tanglefoot." |
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| "Alphabet" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 96.49% of the time. "Alphabet" is used about 285 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 96.49% | 275 | 17,685 |
| Noun (proper) | 2.11% | 6 | 143,867 |
| Lexical Verb (base form) | 1.4% | 4 | 175,879 |
| Total | 100.00% | 285 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following table summarizes names derived from the word "alphabet". | |||
| Name | Gender | Language | Meaning |
| Omega | N/A | Biblical | The last letter of the Greek alphabet |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references.
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Expressions using "alphabet": alphabet brokers ♦ alphabet length ♦ arabic alphabet ♦ aramaic alphabet ♦ armenian alphabet ♦ cipher alphabet ♦ cypher alphabet ♦ cyrillic alphabet ♦ data alphabet ♦ Deaf and dumb alphabet ♦ Demotic alphabet ♦ finger alphabet ♦ greek alphabet ♦ hebraic alphabet ♦ hebrew alphabet ♦ international Phonetic Alphabet ♦ international telegraph alphabet ♦ letter of the alphabet ♦ Lombardic alphabet ♦ manual alphabet ♦ Morse alphabet ♦ phonetic alphabet ♦ point alphabet ♦ roman alphabet ♦ runic alphabet ♦ sound alphabet ♦ source alphabet ♦ telegraph alphabet. Additional references. | |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "alphabet": alphabet-land. | |
Ending with "alphabet": big-alphabet, finger-alphabet. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day | Expression | Frequency per Day |
greek alphabet | 1,548 | celtic alphabet | 101 |
alphabet | 1,289 | calligraphic alphabet | 100 |
chinese alphabet | 980 | alphabet bead | 97 |
japanese alphabet | 574 | alphabet clipart | 95 |
alphabet block | 388 | alphabet coloring page | 93 |
old english alphabet | 337 | cursive alphabet | 88 |
hebrew alphabet | 330 | international phonetic alphabet | 83 |
phonetic alphabet | 275 | egyptian alphabet | 80 |
russian alphabet | 256 | alphabet learning | 79 |
arabic alphabet | 220 | alphabet game | 77 |
military alphabet | 199 | alphabet german | 73 |
sign language alphabet | 195 | cross stitch alphabet | 70 |
alphabet letter | 172 | animal alphabet | 69 |
graffito alphabet | 160 | latin alphabet | 69 |
animated alphabet | 149 | cyrillic alphabet | 66 |
korean alphabet | 144 | alphabet graphic | 61 |
spanish alphabet | 144 | alphabet roman | 61 |
calligraphy alphabet | 144 | alphabet printable | 61 |
the braille alphabet | 136 | alphabet worksheets | 60 |
alphabet stencil | 110 | alphabet song | 60 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| Language | Translations for "alphabet"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Afrikaans | alfabet (ABC, basics, Character ABC, elements, fundamentals, rudiments), abc (ABC, basics, Character ABC, elements, fundamentals, rudiments). (various references) | |
Albanian | alfabet (abc), abece (ABC, basics, elements, fundamentals, rudiments), abëcë (abc). (various references) | |
Arabic | مبادئ علم ما (abc, element), حروف الهخاء (abc), حروف الأبجدية (abc), الحروف الأبجدية (abc), الألف باء (abc), الأبجدية (abc), ألف‘ با‘ س (abc). (various references) | |
Asturian | alfabetu. (various references) | |
Basque | alfabetoa. (various references) | |
Bemba | ifilembo fyonse. (various references) | |
Bulgarian | азбука (script). (various references) | |
Cebuano | alpabeto. (various references) | |
Chamorro | atfabetu. (various references) | |
Chinese | 字母表. (various references) | |
Czech | abeceda (abc). (various references) | |
Danish | alfabet (data alphabet, telegraph alphabet). (various references) | |
Dutch | alfabet (ABC, basics, elements, fundamentals, rudiments), eerste beginselen (ABC, basics, elements, fundamentals, rudiments), ABC (ABC, basics, elements, fundamentals, rudiments). (various references) | |
Ecuadorian Quechua | abedecario. (various references) | |
Esperanto | alfabeto, aboco (ABC). (various references) | |
Faeroese | alfabet, stavrað (ABC, basics, elements, fundamentals, rudiments). (various references) | |
Farsi | مبادی , الفبا. (various references) | |
Finnish | aakkosto, aakkoset (ABC, elements), lennätinaakkosto (data alphabet, telegraph alphabet), kirjaimisto. (various references) | |
French | alphabet (data alphabet, telegraph alphabet). (various references) | |
Frisian | alfabet. (various references) | |
German | Alphabet (abc, basics, elements, fundamentals, rudiments). (various references) | |
Greek | αλφάβητο (abc). (various references) | |
Hawaiian | abece (ABC, basics, elements, fundamentals, rudiments). (various references) | |
Hebrew | אלפבית, אלף בית (a.b.c., abc). (various references) | |
Hungarian | ábécé (a b c, a.b.c., abc, basics, criss-cross-row, elements, fundamentals, rudiments). (various references) | |
Icelandic | stafróf (ABC, basics, elements, fundamentals, rudiments). (various references) | |
Indonesian | alfabet, abjad. (various references) | |
Inuktitut | aioa. (various references) | |
Irish | aibítir. (various references) | |
Italian | alfabeto (a b c, a.b.c., ABC, basics, elements, fundamentals, illiterate, rudiments), alfabet. (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | アルト歌手 (albatross, albino, Albireo, album, alcohol-related harassment, alpaca, alpha, Alphard, alpine, alpinism, alpinist, alto, part-time job), エーテル結合 (ABC, A-D converter, Air France, alien, alpine flower, April fool, ether linkage, ethos, yell). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | アルファベット , エービーシー (ABC). (various references) | |
Korean | 알파벳. (various references) | |
Macedonian | azbuka. (various references) | |
Malay | abjad. (various references) | |
Manx | abbyrlhit. (various references) | |
Maori | raarangi reta. (various references) | |
Occitan | alfabet. (various references) | |
Papiamen | alfabèt (ABC, basics, elements, fundamentals, rudiments). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | alphabetay.(various references) | |
Polish | alfabet, abecadło. (various references) | |
Portuguese | alfabeto (elements, rudiments). (various references) | |
Provencal | alfabet. (various references) | |
Romanian | alfabet (abc), scris (graphic, graphical, hand, painted, paper work, pen, pen and ink, script, writing, written). (various references) | |
Romansch | alfabet. (various references) | |
Russian | азбука (ABC, abc's, elements, hornbook, rudiments), алфавит (a.b.c., abc). (various references) | |
Samoan | o le pi. (various references) | |
Scottish | aibidil (ABC, basics, elements, fundamentals, rudiments). (various references) | |
Sepedi | alfabeta. (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | azbuka (abc), abeceda (abc). (various references) | |
Sicilian | alfarbetu. (various references) | |
Spanish | alfabeto (a b c, a.b.c., ABC, basics, elements, fundamentals, rudiments), abecé (a b c, a.b.c., ABC, basics, elements, fundamentals, rudiments). (various references) | |
Swedish | alfabet (a.b.c., ABC, basics, elements, fundamentals, rudiments). (various references) | |
Tagalog | alpabeto (ABC, basics, elements, fundamentals, rudiments), abakada (ABC, basics, elements, fundamentals, rudiments), katitikan (ABC, basics, elements, fundamentals, rudiments). (various references) | |
Turkish | alfabe (abc, basics, elements, fundamentals, primer, rudiments, script). (various references) | |
Turkmen | elipbiя. (various references) | |
Ukrainian | азбука (a.b.c., abc, hornbook), алфавіт (a.b.c., abc), абетка (a.b.c., abc), покажчик (cursor, designator, finger, indicator, pointer, stile). (various references) | |
Vietnamese | bảng chữ cái, bước đầu (initiative, rudimental, rudimentary). (various references) | |
Welsh | abie/c, gwyddor (rudiment, science), egwyddor (principle, rudiment). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | abecedarium. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "alphabet": alphabeted, alphabetic, alphabetical, alphabetically, alphabeting, alphabetization, alphabetizations, alphabetize, alphabetized, alphabetizer, alphabetizers, alphabetizes, alphabetizing, alphabets. (additional references) | |
Words ending with "alphabet": analphabet. (additional references) | |
Words containing "alphabet": analphabetic, analphabetics, analphabetism, analphabetisms, analphabets, nonalphabetic. (additional references) | |
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"Alphabet" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: alfabet, Alhazen, alpahbet, alphab, alphabat, alphabeth, alphabit, alphabt, Alphage, Alphajet, Alpharel, alphbet, alphebet, Alphege, Alphie, aphabet, Mlphare. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-a-b-e-h-l-p-t" | |
-1 letter: hatable. | |
-2 letters: ablate, althea, palate. | |
-3 letters: abate, alate, aleph, alpha, bathe, blate, bleat, lathe, leapt, lepta, palea, palet, petal, plate, pleat, tabla, table, tepal. | |
-4 letters: abet, able, alae, alba, atap, baal, baht, bale, bate, bath, beat, belt, beta, beth, blae, blah, blat, blet, eath, epha, haet, hale, halt, hate, heal, heap, heat, help, late. | |
-5 letters: aah. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-a-b-e-h-l-p-t" | |
+1 letter: alphabets. | |
+2 letters: alphabeted, alphabetic, analphabet. | |
+3 letters: alphabeting, alphabetize, analphabets. | |
+4 letters: alphabetical, alphabetized, alphabetizer, alphabetizes, analphabetic, bathypelagic. | |
+5 letters: alphabetizers, alphabetizing, analphabetics, analphabetism, blepharoplast, graphitizable, nonalphabetic, phenobarbital. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Crosswords 4. Usage: Modern | 5. Usage: Commercial 6. Images: Slideshow 7. Images: Photo Album 8. Images: Digital Art | 9. Quotations: Familiar 10. Quotations: Fiction 11. Quotations: Non-fiction 12. Usage Frequency | 13. Names: Derived from 14. Expressions 15. Expressions: Internet 16. Translations: Modern | 17. Translations: Ancient 18. Derivations 19. Anagrams 20. Bibliography |
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