letter of the alphabet

noun

1. the conventional characters of the alphabet used to represent speech; “his grandmother taught him his letters”

   Synonyms

   • letter, alphabetic character

   Less specific

   • character, grapheme, graphic symbol

   More specific

   • ascender, descender, digraph, digram, initial, A, a, B, b, C, c, D, d, E, e (more) , F, f, G, g, H, h, I, i, J, j, K, k, L, l, M, m, N, n, O, o, P, p, Q, q, R, r, S, s, T, t, U, u, V, v, W, w, double-u, X, x, ex, Y, y, wye, Z, z, zee, zed, ezed, izzard, alpha, beta, gamma, delta, epsilon, zeta, eta, theta, iota, kappa, lambda, mu, nu, xi, omicron, pi, rho, sigma, tau, upsilon, phi, chi, khi, psi, omega, aleph, beth, gimel, daleth, he, waw, zayin, heth, teth, yodh, kaph, lamedh, mem, nun, samekh, ayin, pe, sadhe, qoph, resh, sin, shin, taw, polyphone, polyphonic letter, block letter, block capital, vowel, consonant

   Part of

   • spelling

   Member of

   • alphabet