nonalphabetized
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
32
Scrabble Score
15
Letters
5
Syllables
12
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
Not in alphabetical order; nonalphabetical.
adj
Nonalphabetic; that does not involve the use of alphabetic spelling.
Example Sentences
- "With a slight modification of this fragment we can produce a nonalphabetized Roman numeral phone book."
- "Publishers' two main objectives—comprehensiveness and political correctness—were simply antithetical to a good narrative, Ferguson maintained; the fact that the books were team written and committee approved made them more like nonalphabetized encyclopedias than descriptive histories."
- "On the nonalphabetized tax list of Greene County, Greenberry was listed between James H.M. Smith and John T. Williams."
- "An examination of the literacy practices of the nonalphabetized, that is, those who have not acquired alphabetic writing through schooling, makes sense in a context such as ours, with large masses of unschooled people who have to cope daily with all sorts of literate institutions in various kinds of literacy events."
- "The variety of fonts and types is a reminder that the printer was introducing the alphabet into a nonalphabetized culture and to a nonprint audience."
- "Using the same kind of procedure as Morais et al. (1979), Read, Zhang, Nie, and Ding (1986) compared alphabetized and nonalphabetized but literate Chinese readers. The performance displayed by the nonalphabetized but literate Chinese adults was similar to that of the Portuguese illiterates, whereas the results obtained by the alphabetized Chinese adults were similar to those of the Portuguese ex-illiterates."
Etymology
From non- + alphabetized.