Explore Alphabet through 10+ example sentences from English, with an explanation of the meaning and related words like basics or fundamentals. Ideal for language learners, writers and word enthusiasts.
Alphabet in a sentence
Related words
Alphabet meaning
- The set of letters used when writing in a language.
- A writing system in which letters represent phonemes. (Contrast e.g. logography, a writing system in which each character represents a word, and syllabary, in which each character represents a syllable.)
Synonyms of Alphabet
Using Alphabet
- The main meaning on this page is: The set of letters used when writing in a language. | A writing system in which letters represent phonemes. (Contrast e.g. logography, a writing system in which each character represents a word, and syllabary, in which each character represents a syllable.) | A writing system in which letters represent phonemes. (Contrast e.g. logography, a writing system in which each character represents a word, and syllabary, in which each character represents a syllable.)
- Useful related words include: character set, basic principle, fundamental principle, basics.
- In the example corpus, alphabet often appears in combinations such as: in alphabet, alphabet inc, of alphabet.
Context around Alphabet
- Average sentence length in these examples: 29.8 words
- Position in the sentence: 6 start, 14 middle, 0 end
- Sentence types: 19 statements, 1 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Alphabet
- In this selection, "alphabet" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 29.8 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, latin, manual, unfamiliar, news, stock and known stand out and add context to how "alphabet" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include shares of alphabet stock in, a given alphabet is a, alphabet inc and marketbeat alphabet. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "alphabet" sits close to words such as espn, preventing and tier, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with alphabet
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
In other Alphabet news, CEO sold 22,500 shares of Alphabet stock in a transaction on Wednesday, April 17th. (19 words)
Algerians mostly use the Neo-Tifinagh or Berber Arabic alphabet, with the Berber Latin alphabet being taught at schools. (19 words)
In other Alphabet news, Director sold 1,500 shares of Alphabet stock in a transaction that occurred on Friday, July 12th. (21 words)
All of his interest in spelling and alphabet reform was made clear in Shaw's will of June 1950, in which provision was made for Isaac Pitman, with a grant in aid from the Public Trustee, to establish a Shaw Alphabet. (41 words)
In a two-way conversation, any manual alphabet known may be used; often one speaker will fingerspell using the alphabet of the other party, as it is often easier to spell quickly in an unfamiliar alphabet than to read quickly. (40 words)
With those dynamics in mind, Amazon and Alphabet have announced significant investments in data center infrastructure, with Amazon investing US$11 billion in Indiana and Alphabet planning a US$3 billion investment for data centers in Indiana and Virginia. (39 words)
Instead, Toriyama used the final letter of the English alphabet to signify that the story of was coming to a conclusion., he said, “Z is the last letter of the alphabet, right? (32 words)
Example sentences (20)
In a two-way conversation, any manual alphabet known may be used; often one speaker will fingerspell using the alphabet of the other party, as it is often easier to spell quickly in an unfamiliar alphabet than to read quickly.
In other Alphabet news, CEO sold 22,500 shares of Alphabet stock in a transaction on Wednesday, April 17th.
In other Alphabet news, Director sold 1,500 shares of Alphabet stock in a transaction that occurred on Friday, July 12th.
Instead, Toriyama used the final letter of the English alphabet to signify that the story of was coming to a conclusion., he said, “Z is the last letter of the alphabet, right?
Now, of course, you've got to look at Alphabet (), the two largest mega-cap stocks in the communication sector-- Alphabet, for example, still just hitting on all cylinders.
With those dynamics in mind, Amazon and Alphabet have announced significant investments in data center infrastructure, with Amazon investing US$11 billion in Indiana and Alphabet planning a US$3 billion investment for data centers in Indiana and Virginia.
Mr. Drummond, who joined Google full-time in 2002, has been working on Alphabet's investments including venture-capital arm GV and private-equity firm CapitalG, as well as legal matters related to the Alphabet structure.
When Google split up and became a subsidiary under Alphabet, Makani was moved to the X subsidiary but was eventually spun out to be its own unit under Alphabet.
That’s the letters L, M, N, O and P of the alphabet, which, if you sing them in the alphabet song, tumble together in a brisk legato that makes the letters hard to distinguish from one another.
The language selected Kiswahili should use the Ge’ez alphabet that a Swedish professor said is much better than the Roman/Latin alphabet.
The Persian alphabet, like all middle eastern alphabets (as opposed to older non-alphabetic writing systems) is based on the Phoenician alphabet.
Algerians mostly use the Neo-Tifinagh or Berber Arabic alphabet, with the Berber Latin alphabet being taught at schools.
All of his interest in spelling and alphabet reform was made clear in Shaw's will of June 1950, in which provision was made for Isaac Pitman, with a grant in aid from the Public Trustee, to establish a Shaw Alphabet.
A Pangram ( Greek παν γράμμα main, pan gramma, "every letter") or holoalphabetic sentence for a given alphabet is a sentence using every letter of the alphabet at least once.
A stronger way of constructing a mixed alphabet is to perform a columnar transposition on the ordinary alphabet using the keyword, but this is not often done.
But it is now such a common practice to use the acronym also to refer to the alphabet itself (from the phrase 'International Phonetic Alphabet') that resistance seems pedantic.
Errors crept in also when Athens replaced its old Attic alphabet with the Ionian alphabet, a change sanctioned by law in 403-2 BC, adding a new complication to the task of copying.
Example The transformation can be represented by aligning two alphabets; the cipher alphabet is the plain alphabet rotated left or right by some number of positions.
Formally, both the pattern and searched text are vectors of elements of Σ. The Σ may be a usual human alphabet (for example, the letters A through Z in the Latin alphabet).
Hence expressions such as "И is the tenth Cyrillic letter" typically refer to the order of the Church Slavonic alphabet; not every Cyrillic alphabet uses every letter available in the script.
Phrases with alphabet
These phrases have their own page with example sentences containing the full combination:
Common combinations with alphabet
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- in alphabet 49×
- alphabet inc 45×
- of alphabet 39×
- alphabet by 26×
- alphabet were 16×
- the alphabet 14×
- alphabet comprises 10×
- alphabet makes 10×
- that alphabet 10×
- alphabet is 9×