Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

letter by letter

Word Rarity Uncommon

Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.64 in modern English

Syllables: let-ter by let-ter
IPA

19

Scrabble Score

14

Letters

3

Syllables

6

Unique Chars

Meaning

adj

Taking each letter in turn.

adj

Of a technique, sorting that orders entries based on each character in a heading regardless of spaces or punctuation.

Inflected Forms

letter-by-letter (alternative)

Questions

What does letter by letter mean?: Taking each letter in turn.

How to pronounce letter by letter

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