What is the difference between letters and alphabets

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This question can be answered by referring to an online dictionary. Could you at least explain why the two words confuse you? Mari-LouA I have seen two terms being used interchangeably. SO just want to know what is the exact usage for these. What was the phrase you read? As oerkelens says, in English these terms are not interchangeable. Arvind07 the fault is yours for not explaining, one could say that without my asking for clarification, oerkelens would never have answered.

Show 1 more comment. Active Oldest Votes. Improve this answer. Moreover, a letter is a grapheme, i. Writing a language is impossible without letters. Therefore, every written language has letters. Letters are the building blocks of any written language.

Letters make words; words make sentences, and sentences make paragraphs. Moreover, different languages in the world have different letters. An alphabet is a set of letters arranged in a fixed order that is used for a writing system. The English language has an alphabet with 26 letters. However, some languages have more than one alphabet.

For example, the Japanese language has two alphabets: Kana and Kanji. Moreover, we can generally categorize the letters in the alphabet into two main groups as vowels and consonants. The most popular alphabet in use at present is the Latin alphabet. Moreover, the Phoenician alphabet is considered to be the first alphabet in the world.

Every letter in English has its own name and as well as the sound. Every letter is placed in the alphabet in order. This order is called in alphabetical order and it helps to put words in a dictionary in alphabetical order.

Letters have indivisible sounds in the sense that words have a composite sound composed of the sounds of these letters. This site uses Akismet to reduce spam. Learn how your comment data is processed. Enter your email Address.