How do you pronounce alphabetic?

The recorded pronunciation is /ˌæl.fəˈbɛt.ɪk/.

alphabetic

/ˌæl.fəˈbɛt.ɪk/

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: 2.48 in modern English

Syllables: al-pha-bet-ic
IPA: /ˌæl.fəˈbɛt.ɪk/

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Meaning

adj

Of or relating to an alphabet, especially the characters A to Z, both uppercase and lowercase.

noun

An alphabetic character; a letter of the alphabet.

Example Sentences

"Seycong or his linguistic consultants could use as a model the alphabetic or abugidic scripts of India and Inner Asia […]"
"Upper case alphabetics can be composed of two characters: (1) a shift character; and (2) the desired alphabetic character."
"The natural sequence of alphabetics is A, B, C, ..., X, Y, Z. For some codes, the binary bit patterns of the alphabetics are in the same relative sequence as the alphabetics."
"Subparagraphs are identified by lower case alphabetics followed by numerics and alphabetics in parentheses and then underlined numerics and alphabetics."

Etymology

Partly from French alphabétique and partly from its etymon Latin alphabēticus. By surface analysis, alphabet + -ic.

Origin

Source language: French

Word Breakdown

Root: alphabétique, alphabēticus

Inflected Forms

alphabetick (alternative, obsolete) alphabetics (plural)

Derived Forms

alphabetician alphabeticise alphabeticity alphabeticize analphabetic holoalphabetic monoalphabetic multialphabetic nonalphabetic polyalphabetic prealphabetic unalphabetic

Phrases

alphamagic square

Frequently Paired Words

alphabetize alphameric alphamerical alphamerically alphanumber alphanumeric alphanumerical alphanumerically

Synonyms

alphabetical

Rhymes With

genetic magnetic athletic pathetic aesthetic synthetic sympathetic energetic cosmetic poetic electromagnetic diabetic