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Plural of letter

regular plural

The plural of letter is letters.

Forms of letter

Singularletter /ˈlɛtə/
Pluralletters /ˈlɛtɚz/
Countableusually uncountable

Letters in a sentence

  • There are twenty-six letters in the English alphabet.
  • Benjamin Franklin was multiskilled – a scientist, politician and a man of letters.
  • Each day the postal service flies thousands of letters around the globe.From the entry fly
  • A strong password has a mixture of lowercase and uppercase letters, numbers, and punctuation marks.From the entry password
  • Sort the letters in those bags into a separate pile for each language.From the entry sort

Meaning of letter

  1. noun A symbol in an alphabet.
  2. noun A written or printed communication, usually defined as longer and more formal than a note. (Sometimes specifically one that is on paper.).
  3. noun The literal meaning of something, as distinguished from its intended and remoter meaning (the spirit).

Full definition of letter

Questions about the plural of letter

What is the plural of letter?
The plural of letter is letters.
Is letter countable?
Letter is usually an uncountable noun; its plural is used for kinds or examples of it.

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Adapted from Wiktionary: letter (page history and authors) and the entries of its forms. Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws left out forms marked obsolete, archaic, rare or dialectal and added the examples. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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