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"Alphabet character"

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6 lettersPronunciation /ˈlɛtə/Part of speech verb, nounSorted eelrttStarts with LEnds with R9 cluesVery common crossword word
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Definitions

  1. mark letters on or mark with letters

Word origin

From Middle English letter, lettre, from Old French letre, from Latin littera (“letter of the alphabet"; in plural, "epistle”). Displaced Old English bōcstæf (literally “book staff”) in sense 1 and ǣrendġewrit (literally “message writing”) in sense 2.

Used in a sentence

  • “There are twenty-six letters in the English alphabet.”
  • “And a superscription also was written ouer him in letters of Greeke, and Latin, & Hebrew, THIS IS THE KING OF THE IEWES.”
  • “I wrote a letter to my sister about my life.”

Source: Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0

Used as a crossword answer9 curated clues

01“Alphabet character”6 letters
02“Alphabet symbol”6 letters
03“Envelope contents”6 letters
04“Envelope contents, often”6 letters
05“Mail in an envelope”6 letters
06“Mail item”6 letters
07“Message in an envelope”6 letters
08“Message sent by mail”6 letters
09“Written character”6 letters

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