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alphabetic

/ˌæl.fəˈbɛt.ɪk/

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Partly from French alphabétique and partly from its etymon Latin alphabēticus. By surface analysis, alphabet + -ic.

adjective alphabetick

Of or relating to an alphabet, especially the characters A to Z, both uppercase and lowercase. Seycong or his linguistic consultants could use as a model the alphabetic or abugidic scripts of India and Inner Asia […]
Similar: alphabetical

noun alphabetics · alphabetick

An alphabetic character; a letter of the alphabet. Upper case alphabetics can be composed of two characters: (1) a shift character; and (2) the desired alphabetic character.

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@misc{alphabetic_2026,
  title = {alphabetic},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/alphabetic},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}