Word.ws English Dictionary

multilettered

multilettered adjective: having many letters (characters of an alphabet).

Adjective

multilettered (comparative more multilettered, superlative most multilettered)

  1. Having many letters (characters of an alphabet).
    • The reader soon begins to recognise these patterns, like the recurrent multilettered thunder-word, representing the thunderclap which terrified the savage cavemen into religious belief and started off the cycle of civilisation.1978, Matthew John Caldwell Hodgart, James Joyce: a student's guide, page 133

Forms of multilettered

comparativemore multilettered
superlativemost multilettered

Origin of multilettered

From multi- + lettered.

Questions about multilettered

What does multilettered mean?
Multilettered means having many letters (characters of an alphabet).
What part of speech is multilettered?
Multilettered is an adjective.

Words near multilettered in the dictionary

  1. multilength
  2. multilepton
  3. multileptonic
  4. multileptons
  5. multilesion
  6. multilettered
  7. multilevel
  8. multileveled
  9. multilevelled
  10. multilevelness
  11. multilevels

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: multilettered (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.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “multilettered.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/multilettered. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.