letter

Usage

• unlettered

  If someone is unlettered, they are illiterate, unable to read and write.

• illiterate

  not able to read or write

• letter

  win an athletic letter

• literacy

  the ability to read and write

• literati

  the literary intelligentsia

• literature

  creative writing of recognized artistic value

• obliteration

  destruction by annihilating something

• transliterate

  rewrite in a different script