Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

lowercase

/ˈloʊ.ɚˌkeɪs/

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.80 in modern English

Syllables: low-er-case
IPA: /ˈloʊ.ɚˌkeɪs/

14

Scrabble Score

9

Letters

3

Syllables

8

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

Alternative form of lower case.

Uncountable

adj

verb

To convert (text) to lower case.

Transitive verb

Example Sentences

"At a 1903 typography conference, attendees decided that they would use lowercase eszett and substitute “SZ” for uppercase instances of the letter, until they could figure out a proper design for it."
"Sister Jadallah apologizes for being unable to bring her readers facts and figures on Palestinian Lesbianism (forgive my capital "L" in Lesbianism, but like my Black brothers I cannot bring myself to lower-casing our recently empowering accoutrements of our Gay identities)"
"I never asked Rob e. Hanson why he lowercased his middle initial; I suppose he figured a man just shouldn’t accumulate too much capital."

Etymology

From the noun phrase lower case, which itself consists of an adjective modifying a noun; when used as a noun adjunct then, to render its syntactical function clearer and simpler, it is written as a single word or with a hyphen as a sort of chunking.

Regional Pronunciation

American English: /ˈloʊ.ɚˌkeɪs/
British English: /ˌləʊ.ə(ɹ)ˈkeɪs/

Usage

Inflected Forms

lower case (alternative) lower-case (alternative) lowercases (present, singular) lowercasing (participle, present) lowercased (participle, past) lowercased (past)

Synonyms

lowercased minuscule small letter lower-case letter

Antonyms

uppercase

Questions

How do you pronounce lowercase?: The recorded pronunciation is /ˈloʊ.ɚˌkeɪs/.
What does lowercase mean?: Alternative form of lower case.
Where does lowercase come from?: From the noun phrase lower case, which itself consists of an adjective modifying a noun; when used as a noun adjunct then, to render its syntactical function clearer and simpler, it is written as a single word or with a hyphen as a sort of chunking.

How to pronounce lowercase

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