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letterform

noun

letterform is spelled L-E-T-T-E-R-F-O-R-M: 10 letters. It appears about once in every 72 million words in written English, the 269,040th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, letterform means “The shape of an individual letter” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of letterform is letterforms.

How many letters and syllables are in letterform?

Letters10: L-E-T-T-E-R-F-O-R-M
In writingabout once in every 72 million words; the 269,040th most frequent word form
Wrong spellings searchednone measured in search

Sources: letters and syllables from the English Wiktionary's hyphenation or pronunciation; written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).

How common is letterform?

Letterform appears about once in every 72 million words in written English, the 269,040th most frequent word form in the list.

Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).

Forms of letterform

  • letterforms plural

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

What does letterform mean?

The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).

noun

  1. 1

    The shape of an individual letter.

  2. 2

    The design and development of such shapes.

    the art of letterform and calligraphy

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

Where does letterform come from?

From letter + form.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

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