different between words vs letters

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /w??dz/ (UK)

Noun

words

1. plural of word

   Words have a longer life than deeds. — Pindar (translated)

Noun

words pl (plural only)

1. Angry debate or conversation; argument. [from 15th c.]

   After she found out the truth, she had words with him, to tell him how she felt.

2. Lines in a script for a performance.

   You better get your words memorised before rehearsal next Saturday.

3. Lyrics.

   The composer set the words to music.

Translations

Verb

words

1. Third-person singular simple present indicative form of word

Anagrams

• Sword, s-word, sword

English

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /?l?t?z/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?l?t?z/

Noun

letters

1. plural of letter

Noun

letters

1. Literature (school subject).

   Rickert was the first woman (and second individual) to be awarded a Ph.D. in English letters and philology with that academic honor at the University of Chicago.

2. The liberal arts, humanities, learning (broad accumulated cultural knowledge).

   Though architecture in ancient Rome was not generally considered to belong to the artes liberales, Vitruvius easily qualified as a man of letters because of his wide learning.

Derived terms

• man of letters

Verb

letters

1. Third-person singular simple present indicative form of letter

Anagrams

• Stelter, Stetler, lettres, settler, sterlet, tetrels, trestle

Afrikaans

Noun

letters

1. plural of letter

Dutch

Pronunciation

Noun

letters

1. Plural form of letter

Middle English

Noun

letters

1. Alternative form of lettres

Swedish

Noun

letters

1. indefinite genitive plural of lett