letterspacing
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
18
Scrabble Score
13
Letters
4
Syllables
11
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
The practice of typing a letterspace in between the letters of a word (for emphasis) or an abbreviation (for delimitation), which in current orthographies and styles tends to be limited (to only certain uses).
Uncountable
Example Sentences
- "The typewritten identification papers from 1942 recorded the surname as A C K E R M A N N, with capitals and letterspacing."
- "The typewritten memo from 1952 referred to the CIA as the C. I. A., with periods and letterspacing."