Alphabet in English

The Alphabet in English

Alphabet means a set of letters or symbols in a particular order that used to represent the speech sound of a language.

The English word alphabet came into  English from the Late Latin word alphabetum, which in turn originated in the Greek. The Greek word was made from the first two letters, alpha (α) and beta (β).  
It originated around the 7th century from the Latin script.

What are the 26 letters in the English Alphabet?

Alphabet in English includes 26 letters. All of the 26 letters have an uppercase and lowercase form.

No	CAPITAL LETTER	SMALL LETTER
1	A	a
2	B	b
3	C	c
4	D	d
5	E	e
6	F	f
7	G	g
8	H	h
9	I	i
10	J	j
11	K	k
12	L	l
13	M	m
14	N	n
15	O	o
16	P	p
17	Q	q
18	R	r
19	S	s
20	T	t
21	U	u
22	V	v
23	W	w
24	X	x
25	Y	y
26	Z	z

CAPITAL LETTERS

SMALL LETTERS

Let's remember these.......

• Among the 26 letters in the English alphabet, 5 of them are vowels a, e, i, o, u.

• Remaining 21 letters are called consonants. They are b, c, d, f, g, h, j, k, l, m, n, p, q, r, s, t, v, w, x, y, z.

• Each letter has different sounds. The sounds of the English alphabet are known as Phonics.

English alphabetical order

• Now we learned that the English alphabet starts with the letter ‘A’/ 'a' and ends with the letter ‘Z’/ 'z'.This order is known as alphabetical order.

For example, to write a list of names in alphabetical order we start with names that start with ‘A’. Then the names start with ‘B’.

Alice

Ben

Charlie

If more than one word begins with ‘A’ we put them in order according to the second letter and then the third letter and so on.

Example:

Alice
Annie
Ben
Chacon
Charlie

We use alphabetical order for many purposes to sort the list. In dictionaries, Book content, Telephone directories, etc. It helps the reader to find the name or title of the list easily.

For Capital Letters

For Small letters