How do you use the word "alphabet" in a sentence?

Q: How do you use the word "alphabet" in a sentence?

Here are real-life examples of using "alphabet": The English alphabet has 26 letters. In this secret code, each number stands for a letter of the alphabet.

Alphabet Meaning

/ˈæl.fəˌbɛt/

Definition, CEFR level A1, pronunciation, examples, and quiz.

Definition

nounThe set of letters used when writing in a language.

nounA 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.)

Sentence Examples

The English alphabet has 26 letters.

In this secret code, each number stands for a letter of the alphabet.

Q comes between P and R in the English alphabet.

CEFR Practice Quiz

Children in kindergarten learn each letter of the ____ from A to Z.

CEFR Practice Quiz (Alternate)

Most children learn the letters of the ____ before they start school.

Word Origin & History

Etymology tree Proto-Semitic *ʔalp- Phoenician 𐤀𐤋𐤐 (ʾlp)bor. Ancient Greek ἄλφα (álpha) Proto-Semitic *bayt- Phoenician 𐤁𐤕 (bt)bor. Ancient Greek βῆτᾰ (bêtă) Proto-Indo-European *-os Proto-Hellenic *-os Ancient Greek -ος (-os) Ancient Greek ἀλφάβητος (alphábētos) Byzantine Greek ἀλφάβητον (alphábēton)der. Classical Latin alphabētumbor. Middle English alphabete English alphabet From Middle English alphabete, borrowed from Classical Latin alphabētum, from Ancient Greek ἀλφάβητος (alphábētos), from ἄλφα (álpha) and βῆτα (bêta), the names of the first two letters of the Greek alphabet, Α (A) and Β (B), lowercase forms α and β. The Greek names derived from aleph, the name of the Phoenician letter 𐤀 (ʾ, “ox”) and beth, the name of the letter 𐤁 (b, “house”), so called because they were pictograms of those objects, having developed from the Egyptian hieroglyphs F1 (𓃾) and pr (𓉐). Doublet of alfabeto.

Literary Quotations & Historical Citations

"We realize the fact that the alphabet A has been used in many world scripts as a vowel with the others AEIOU." — 2002, Eugene E. Dike, African myth of creation in African form of writing, Monsenstein und Vannerdat, →ISBN, page 30:

"There are 26 alphabets in English." — 2005, Satinder Bal Gupta, Comprehensive Discrete Mathematics & Structures, Laxmi Publications, page 237:

"Tamil got 247 alphabets you know. Got two R-eh, got three L, got two N you know." — 2007, Elangovan, P, Singapore, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 83:

"The very alphabet of our law." — 1828, Thomas Babington Macaulay, “The Constitutional History of England: From the Accession of Henry VII, to the Death of George II, by Henry Hallam”, in The Edinburgh Review, volume 18:

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