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ls

ls is the initialism of letterspacing.

ls is the plural of l.

Meaning of letterspacing

Noun

letterspacing (usually uncountable, plural letterspacings)

  1. (usually) The amount of space between adjacent text characters.
    Synonyms:
    tracking
  2. (usually) 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).
    • The typewritten identification papers from 1942 recorded the surname as A C K E R M A N N, with capitals and letterspacing.

Meaning of l

Letter

  1. (letter, lowercase) The twelfth letter of the English alphabet, called el and written in the Latin script.

See all 7 meanings of l

Proper noun capitalized: LS

LS

  1. (abbreviation, initialism) Initialism of Local Supercluster.
    Synonyms:
    LSC
  2. (abbreviation, initialism) Initialism of Lower Sorbian.
  3. (abbreviation, initialism) Initialism of lateral sclerosis.

Noun (1) capitalized: LS

LS (uncountable)

  1. (abbreviation, initialism) Initialism of love-shyness.
  2. (abbreviation, initialism) Initialism of lichen sclerosus.
  3. (abbreviation, initialism) Initialism of Laron syndrome.
  4. (abbreviation, initialism) Initialism of Legius syndrome.

Noun (2) capitalized: LS

LS (plural LSs or LSes)

  1. (abbreviation, initialism) Initialism of landing ship

Noun (3) capitalized: Ls

Ls

  1. (plural) plural of L

Noun (4) capitalized: Ls

Ls

  1. (US, slang) driver's license
    • I can't pick you up. I ain't got my Ls.

Synonyms of ls

Forms of ls

pluralLSs
pluralLSes

Origin of ls

Abbreviation of license.

Phrases with ls

Questions about ls

What does ls mean?
Ls means driver's license.
What is ls the initialism of?
Ls is the initialism of letterspacing.
What part of speech is ls?
Ls can be a proper noun or a noun.

Words near ls in the dictionary

  1. LRTI
  2. LRU
  3. LRUs
  4. LRV
  5. LRVs
  6. ls
  7. Ls in the chat
  8. LS-swap
  9. LS-swapped
  10. LS-swapping
  11. LS-swaps

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: ls (page history and authors); LS (page history and authors); Ls (page history and authors); letterspacing (page history and authors); l (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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