alphabet soup
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: 3.57 in modern English
21
Scrabble Score
12
Letters
4
Syllables
10
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
A type of soup that contains noodles in the shape of various alphabetical letters, sometimes also numbers.
Countable; Uncountable
noun
A physical state in which there is a miscellany of different particles, often designated by letters.
Countable; Uncountable
noun
The series of preliminary races (denoted by letters) through which drivers must advance to the main event.
Countable; Slang; Uncountable
Example Sentences
- "Meronym: alfabeto"
- "Parents have been entertaining their children at mealtime with alphabet soup since the nineteenth century."
- "The various engineering teams' correspondence on circuit board design was an alphabet soup to outsiders."
- "And particularly in headlines and written materials, gay was used over LGBT. One ambivalent heterosexual ally explained this decision-making: I think there were several people who were sensitive to issues like that about do we use the word lesbian? Do we use the word transgender? And it's not that we didn't use those words, but in general, if you're doing a brochure and you have a headline, you don't include the whole alphabet soup."
- "GCN has published debates between and about Left groups like the Revolutionary Socialist League, Workers World Party, and Philadelphia Worokers Organizing Committee, but their debates are likely to leave the uninitiated in a daze. For folks who are new to the Left, the multitude of group acronyms must seem like an alphabet soup ― RSL, WWP, PWOC, SWP, CPML, NAM, DCSO, etc. ― and they are likely to have no appetite for it."
- "too many three-letter agencies, constituting an alphabet soup"