Home › Words › A › alphabeticalphabetic/ˌæl.fəˈbɛt.ɪk/alphabetic means of or relating to an alphabet, especially the characters A to Z, both uppercase and lowercase.alphabetic is pronounced /ˌæl.fəˈbɛt.ɪk/.EtymologyPartly from French alphabétique and partly from its etymon Latin alphabēticus. By surface analysis, alphabet + -ic.adjOf or relating to an alphabet, especially the characters A to Z, both uppercase and lowercase.e.g.“Seycong or his linguistic consultants could use as a model the alphabetic or abugidic scripts of India and Inner Asia […]” — 1996, Peter T. Daniels, William Bright, The World's Writing Systems, →ISBN, page 26:nounAn alphabetic character; a letter of the alphabet.e.g.“Upper case alphabetics can be composed of two characters: (1) a shift character; and (2) the desired alphabetic character.” — 1960, Peter C. Tosini, Magnetic Drum Directory and Programming System for Codesorting Letter Mail, page 32:Definitions & examples from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 3.0).Words closest in meaningBy meaning, not spelling — each word's AI semantic fingerprint, nearest first.alphabetical 81% match — Pertaining to, furnished with, or expressed by letters of the alphabet. vs alphabetic →alphabeticity 74% match — The quality of being alphabetic. vs alphabetic →alphabetlike 74% match — Resembling an alphabet. vs alphabetic →alphabetological 69% match — Relating to alphabetology. vs alphabetic →alphabetician 69% match — One who deals with the alphabet in some way, for example by attempting to make a series of utterances beginning with each letter of the alphabet in order. vs alphabetic →alphabeted 67% match — Written using a specified alphabet vs alphabetic →alphabetary 67% match — alphabetic; rudimentary vs alphabetic →alphanumeric 67% match — Consisting of, or limited to, letters and/or numbers, especially the characters A to Z (lowercase and uppercase) and 0 to 9. vs alphabetic →