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words with letters in alphabetical order

mossy.
lossy.
knotty.
hippy.
hippo.
hilly.
glossy.
gimpy.

Simply so, can Word put a list in alphabetical order?

Choose your order.

Ascending will put the list in alphabetical order, and Descending will put the list in reverse alphabetical order. If you want to sort by the second word for each entry (for example, by last name in a FIRST, LAST format), click the Options button in the Sort Text window. Press OK to sort the list.

Furthermore, how do I arrange in alphabetical order in Word?

Select the text in a bulleted or numbered list. On the Home tab, in the Paragraph group, click Sort. In the Sort Text dialog box, under Sort by, click Paragraphs and then Text, and then click either Ascending or Descending.

Where is sort in Word?

On the Home tab, in the Paragraph group, click Sort. In the Sort Text dialog box, under Sort by, click Paragraphs and then Text, and then click either Ascending or Descending.

How do you arrange names?

When writing your name in this order, your last name/surname comes first, and you must use a comma to separate it from the others. Then the first name follows; followed the middle name (as illustrated above). Always ensure that your name is spelt correctly and arranged in the right order.

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I’ve put together the following code to check if a string/word is alphabetically ordered:

def isInAlphabeticalOrder(word):
    word1=sorted(word)
    word2=[]
    for i in word:
        word2.append(i)
    if word2 == word1:
        return True
    else:
        return False

but I feel like there must be a more efficient way (fewer lines of code) to check other than turning the strings into lists. Isn’t there a operand to sort strings alphabetically without turning each char into a list? Can anyone suggest a more efficient way?

asked Dec 1, 2012 at 16:50

This has the advantage of being O(n) (sorting a string is O(n log n)). A character (or string) in Python is «less than» another character if it comes before it in alphabetical order, so in order to see if a string is in alphabetical order we just need to compare each pair of adjacent characters. Also, note that you take range(len(word) — 1) instead of range(len(word)) because otherwise you will overstep the bounds of the string on the last iteration of the loop.

def isInAlphabeticalOrder(word):
    for i in range(len(word) - 1):
        if word[i] > word[i + 1]:
            return False
    return True

answered Dec 1, 2012 at 17:08

This is a simple (and Python idiomatic) way to do this:

def isInAlphabeticalOrder(word):
    return word==''.join(sorted(word))

>>> isInAlphabeticalOrder('abc')
True
>>> isInAlphabeticalOrder('acb')    
False

answered Dec 1, 2012 at 16:57

This is the easiest:

def alphabetical(word):
    return list(word) == sorted(word)

answered Apr 3, 2017 at 9:01

alexalex

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Try this, as a one-liner:

all(x <= y for x, y in zip(word, word[1:]))

answered Dec 1, 2012 at 17:10

Óscar LópezÓscar López

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You can use generator in your function like this: —

def isInAlphabeticalOrder(word):
    return all((word[i+1] >= word[i] for i in range(len(word) - 1)))

The generator gets each value of i from the given range, and compare the character at that index with the one in the previous index. And all the comparison results are passed to all function, which will return True if all the values are True.

>>> def isInAlphabeticalOrder(word):
        return all((word[i+1] >= word[i] for i in range(len(word) - 1)))

>>> isInAlphabeticalOrder("rohit")
False
>>> isInAlphabeticalOrder("aabc")
True
>>> isInAlphabeticalOrder("abc")
True

Of course that does not consider case-insensitivity. If you want to consider it, then change the return statement to: —

return all((str.lower(word[i+1]) >= str.lower(word[i]) for i in range(len(word) - 1)))

answered Dec 1, 2012 at 16:55

Rohit JainRohit Jain

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Several answers have already addressed the actual string comparison. But I want to add a bit about your return logic.

It is common for beginners to write code like:

if something == somethingElse:
  return True
else:
  return False

That code can always be simplified like this:

return something == somethingElse

If that code doesn’t make sense at first it reads as, «Compare something to SomethingElse, and return the result of the comparison».

answered Dec 5, 2016 at 4:10

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The program will return true if the word is alphabetically arranged or false otherwise. The second argument wordList is initialized to None meaning the program will check for any word that you put in including numbers:

def isAlphabeticalOrder(word, wordList = None):
if (len(word) > 0):
    curr = word[0]
for letter in word:
    if (curr > letter):
        return False
    else:
        curr = letter
if wordList is None:
    return True
return word in wordList

answered Mar 12, 2016 at 8:32

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Although the Oxford English Dictionary defines more than 750,000 English words, there are only about 860 words that have their letters arranged in alphabetical order. These are known as abecedarian words (from the Latin word, acededarius, meaning “alphabetical”).

Excluding the word “a”, the shortest words with letters in alphabetical order, containing only 2 letters, are: am, an, be, is, it, no.

The word ace contains 3 letters in alphabetical order.

There are many words with their letters in alphabetical order that contain 6 letters: abhors, accent, access, almost, biopsy, billow, chintz, effort.

The longest word with letters in alphabetical order is Aegilops (8 letters). Technically, this is a Latin term for North American and Eurasian plants in the grass family, Poaceae (generally known as goatgrasses), that are the wild ancestor of modern domestic wheat. In medicine, an aegilops is an abscess or ulcer in the outer or inner corner of the eye. However, the longest English words with letters in alphabetical order, containing 7 letters are: beefily, billowy.

Number with letters in alphabetical order: forty

Number with letters in reverse alphabetical order: one

Longest word with letters in reverse alphabetical order: punctoschmidtella (17) and spoon-feed (9 letters)

Shortest word with all vowels in alphabetical order: aerious (7 letters)

Longest word with all vowels in alphabetical order: phragelliorhynchus (18 letters), adventitious (12), abstemious (10), facetious (9)

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«Alphabetical» and «Alphabetization» redirect here. For other uses, see Alphabetical (disambiguation). For the creation of an alphabetic writing system, which in instances of Latin script is called romanization, see Romanization.

Alphabetical order is a system whereby character strings are placed in order based on the position of the characters in the conventional ordering of an alphabet. It is one of the methods of collation. In mathematics, a lexicographical order is the generalization of the alphabetical order to other data types, such as sequences of numbers or other ordered mathematical objects.

When applied to strings or sequences that may contain digits, numbers or more elaborate types of elements, in addition to alphabetical characters, the alphabetical order is generally called a lexicographical order.

To determine which of two strings of characters comes first when arranging in alphabetical order, their first letters are compared. If they differ, then the string whose first letter comes earlier in the alphabet comes before the other string. If the first letters are the same, then the second letters are compared, and so on. If a position is reached where one string has no more letters to compare while the other does, then the first (shorter) string is deemed to come first in alphabetical order.

Capital or upper case letters are generally considered to be identical to their corresponding lower case letters for the purposes of alphabetical ordering, although conventions may be adopted to handle situations where two strings differ only in capitalization. Various conventions also exist for the handling of strings containing spaces, modified letters, such as those with diacritics, and non-letter characters such as marks of punctuation.

The result of placing a set of words or strings in alphabetical order is that all of the strings beginning with the same letter are grouped together; within that grouping all words beginning with the same two-letter sequence are grouped together; and so on. The system thus tends to maximize the number of common initial letters between adjacent words.

History[edit]

Alphabetical order was first used in the 1st millennium BCE by Northwest Semitic scribes using the abjad system.^[1] However, a range of other methods of classifying and ordering material, including geographical, chronological, hierarchical and by category, were preferred over alphabetical order for centuries.^[2]

The Bible is dated to the 6th–7th centuries BCE. In the Book of Jeremiah, the prophet utilizes the Atbash substitution cipher, based on alphabetical order. Similarly, biblical authors used acrostics based on the (ordered) Hebrew alphabet.^[3]

The first effective use of alphabetical order as a cataloging device among scholars may have been in ancient Alexandria,^[4] in the Great Library of Alexandria, which was founded around 300 BCE. The poet and scholar Callimachus, who worked there, is thought to have created the world’s first library catalog, known as the Pinakes, with scrolls shelved in alphabetical order of the first letter of authors’ names.^[2]

In the 1st century BC, Roman writer Varro compiled alphabetic lists of authors and titles.^[5] In the 2nd century CE, Sextus Pompeius Festus wrote an encyclopedic epitome of the works of Verrius Flaccus, De verborum significatu, with entries in alphabetic order.^[6] In the 3rd century CE, Harpocration wrote a Homeric lexicon alphabetized by all letters.^[7] In the 10th century, the author of the Suda used alphabetic order with phonetic variations.

Alphabetical order as an aid to consultation started to enter the mainstream of Western European intellectual life in the second half of the 12th century, when alphabetical tools were developed to help preachers analyse biblical vocabulary. This led to the compilation of alphabetical concordances of the Bible by the Dominican friars in Paris in the 13th century, under Hugh of Saint Cher. Older reference works such as St. Jerome’s Interpretations of Hebrew Names were alphabetized for ease of consultation. The use of alphabetical order was initially resisted by scholars, who expected their students to master their area of study according to its own rational structures; its success was driven by such tools as Robert Kilwardby’s index to the works of St. Augustine, which helped readers access the full original text instead of depending on the compilations of excerpts which had become prominent in 12th century scholasticism. The adoption of alphabetical order was part of the transition from the primacy of memory to that of written works.^[8] The idea of ordering information by the order of the alphabet also met resistance from the compilers of encyclopaedias in the 12th and 13th centuries, who were all devout churchmen. They preferred to organise their material theologically – in the order of God’s creation, starting with Deus (meaning God).^[2]

In 1604 Robert Cawdrey had to explain in Table Alphabeticall, the first monolingual English dictionary, «Nowe if the word, which thou art desirous to finde, begin with (a) then looke in the beginning of this Table, but if with (v) looke towards the end».^[9] Although as late as 1803 Samuel Taylor Coleridge condemned encyclopedias with «an arrangement determined by the accident of initial letters»,^[10] many lists are today based on this principle.

Arrangement in alphabetical order can be seen as a force for democratising access to information, as it does not require extensive prior knowledge to find what was needed.^[2]

Ordering in the Latin script[edit]

Basic order and examples[edit]

The standard order of the modern ISO basic Latin alphabet is:

A-B-C-D-E-F-G-H-I-J-K-L-M-N-O-P-Q-R-S-T-U-V-W-X-Y-Z

An example of straightforward alphabetical ordering follows:

As; Aster; Astrolabe; Astronomy; Astrophysics; At; Ataman; Attack; Baa

Another example:

Barnacle; Be; Been; Benefit; Bent

The above words are ordered alphabetically. As comes before Aster because they begin with the same two letters and As has no more letters after that whereas Aster does. The next three words come after Aster because their fourth letter (the first one that differs) is r, which comes after e (the fourth letter of Aster) in the alphabet. Those words themselves are ordered based on their sixth letters (l, n and p respectively). Then comes At, which differs from the preceding words in the second letter (t comes after s). Ataman comes after At for the same reason that Aster came after As. Attack follows Ataman based on comparison of their third letters, and Baa comes after all of the others because it has a different first letter.

Treatment of multiword strings[edit]

When some of the strings being ordered consist of more than one word, i.e., they contain spaces or other separators such as hyphens, then two basic approaches may be taken. In the first approach, all strings are ordered initially according to their first word, as in the sequence:

Oak; Oak Hill; Oak Ridge; Oakley Park; Oakley River

where all strings beginning with the separate word Oak precede all those beginning Oakley, because Oak precedes Oakley in alphabetical order.

In the second approach, strings are alphabetized as if they had no spaces, giving the sequence:

Oak; Oak Hill; Oakley Park; Oakley River; Oak Ridge

where Oak Ridge now comes after the Oakley strings, as it would if it were written «Oakridge».

The second approach is the one usually taken in dictionaries^{[citation needed]}, and it is thus often called dictionary order by publishers. The first approach has often been used in book indexes, although each publisher traditionally set its own standards for which approach to use therein; there was no ISO standard for book indexes (ISO 999) before 1975.

Special cases[edit]

Modified letters[edit]

In French, modified letters (such as those with diacritics) are treated the same as the base letter for alphabetical ordering purposes. For example, rôle comes between rock and rose, as if it were written role. However, languages that use such letters systematically generally have their own ordering rules. See § Language-specific conventions below.

Ordering by surname[edit]

In most cultures where family names are written after given names, it is still desired to sort lists of names (as in telephone directories) by family name first. In this case, names need to be reordered to be sorted correctly. For example, Juan Hernandes and Brian O’Leary should be sorted as «Hernandes, Juan» and «O’Leary, Brian» even if they are not written this way. Capturing this rule in a computer collation algorithm is complex, and simple attempts will fail. For example, unless the algorithm has at its disposal an extensive list of family names, there is no way to decide if «Gillian Lucille van der Waal» is «van der Waal, Gillian Lucille», «Waal, Gillian Lucille van der», or even «Lucille van der Waal, Gillian».

Ordering by surname is frequently encountered in academic contexts. Within a single multi-author paper, ordering the authors alphabetically by surname, rather than by other methods such as reverse seniority or subjective degree of contribution to the paper, is seen as a way of «acknowledg[ing] similar contributions» or «avoid[ing] disharmony in collaborating groups».^[11] The practice in certain fields of ordering citations in bibliographies by the surnames of their authors has been found to create bias in favour of authors with surnames which appear earlier in the alphabet, while this effect does not appear in fields in which bibliographies are ordered chronologically.^[12]

The and other common words[edit]

If a phrase begins with a very common word (such as «the», «a» or «an», called articles in grammar), that word is sometimes ignored or moved to the end of the phrase, but this is not always the case. For example, the book «The Shining» might be treated as «Shining», or «Shining, The» and therefore before the book title «Summer of Sam». However, it may also be treated as simply «The Shining» and after «Summer of Sam». Similarly, «A Wrinkle in Time» might be treated as «Wrinkle in Time», «Wrinkle in Time, A», or «A Wrinkle in Time». All three alphabetization methods are fairly easy to create by algorithm, but many programs rely on simple lexicographic ordering instead.

Mac prefixes[edit]

The prefixes M and Mc in Irish and Scottish surnames are abbreviations for Mac and are sometimes alphabetized as if the spelling is Mac in full. Thus McKinley might be listed before Mackintosh (as it would be if it had been spelled out as «MacKinley»). Since the advent of computer-sorted lists, this type of alphabetization is less frequently encountered, though it is still used in British telephone directories.

St prefix[edit]

The prefix St or St. is an abbreviation of «Saint», and is traditionally alphabetized as if the spelling is Saint in full. Thus in a gazetteer St John’s might be listed before Salem (as if it would be if it had been spelled out as «Saint John’s»). Since the advent of computer-sorted lists, this type of alphabetization is less frequently encountered, though it is still sometimes used.

Ligatures[edit]

Ligatures (two or more letters merged into one symbol) which are not considered distinct letters, such as Æ and Œ in English, are typically collated as if the letters were separate—»æther» and «aether» would be ordered the same relative to all other words. This is true even when the ligature is not purely stylistic, such as in loanwords and brand names.

Special rules may need to be adopted to sort strings which vary only by whether two letters are joined by a ligature.

Treatment of numerals[edit]

When some of the strings contain numerals (or other non-letter characters), various approaches are possible. Sometimes such characters are treated as if they came before or after all the letters of the alphabet. Another method is for numbers to be sorted alphabetically as they would be spelled: for example 1776 would be sorted as if spelled out «seventeen seventy-six», and 24 heures du Mans as if spelled «vingt-quatre…» (French for «twenty-four»). When numerals or other symbols are used as special graphical forms of letters, as 1337 for leet or the movie Seven (which was stylised as Se7en), they may be sorted as if they were those letters. Natural sort order orders strings alphabetically, except that multi-digit numbers are treated as a single character and ordered by the value of the number encoded by the digits.

In the case of monarchs and popes, although their numbers are in Roman numerals and resemble letters, they are normally arranged in numerical order: so, for example, even though V comes after I, the Danish king Christian IX comes after his predecessor Christian VIII.

Language-specific conventions[edit]

Languages which use an extended Latin alphabet generally have their own conventions for treatment of the extra letters. Also in some languages certain digraphs are treated as single letters for collation purposes. For example, the Spanish alphabet treats ñ as a basic letter following n, and formerly treated the digraphs ch and ll as basic letters following c and l, respectively. Now сh and ll are alphabetized as two-letter combinations. The new alphabetization rule was issued by the Royal Spanish Academy in 1994. These digraphs were still formally designated as letters but they are no longer so since 2010. On the other hand, the digraph rr follows rqu as expected (and did so even before the 1994 alphabetization rule), while vowels with acute accents (á, é, í, ó, ú) have always been ordered in parallel with their base letters, as has the letter ü.

In a few cases, such as Arabic and Kiowa, the alphabet has been completely reordered.

Alphabetization rules applied in various languages are listed below.

In Arabic, there are two main orders of the 28 letter alphabet used today. The standard and most commonly used is the hijā alphabet^[ar], which was coined by the early Arab linguist Nasr ibn ‘Asim al-Laythi and features a visual ordering method where for example the letters baa, taa, Θaa ب ت ث are ordered base on shape of baa. The original abjad order, which phonethically resembles that of other Semitic languages as well as Latin, is still in use today, usually limited for ordering lists in a document, analogous to Roman Numerals. When the abjadiyya is used in numbering, a unique abstracted way of writing the letters must be used in order to distinguish those letters from three first letter of the sentence as well as from numbers. For example, the Alef «ا» which looks identical to the Hindi numeral one «١», a small oval loop extends clockwise of the letter’s bottom, followed by a short tail. Although these characters are rarely used digitally, they have been recognized under ASCII as Arabic Mathematical Alphabet, with ranges from 1EE00 TO 1EEFF. ^[13] There is a less common order, which is ordered phonetically Sawti Alphabet ^[ar], starting from the deep throat sound haa to the lip most meem. This order was created by Al-faraheedi.

In Azerbaijani, there are eight additional letters to the standard Latin alphabet. Five of them are vowels: i, ı, ö, ü, ə and three are consonants: ç, ş, ğ. The alphabet is the same as the Turkish, with the same sounds written with the same letters, except for three additional letters: q, x and ə for sounds that do not exist in Turkish. Although all the «Turkish letters» are collated in their «normal» alphabetical order like in Turkish, the three extra letters are collated arbitrarily after letters whose sounds approach theirs. So, q is collated just after k, x (pronounced like a German ch) is collated just after h and ə (pronounced roughly like an English short a) is collated just after e.
In Breton, there is no «c», «q», «x» but there are the digraphs «ch» and «c’h», which are collated between «b» and «d». For example: « buzhugenn, chug, c’hoar, daeraouenn » (earthworm, juice, sister, teardrop).
In Czech and Slovak, accented vowels have secondary collating weight – compared to other letters, they are treated as their unaccented forms (in Czech, A-Á, E-É-Ě, I-Í, O-Ó, U-Ú-Ů, Y-Ý, and in Slovak, A-Á-Ä, E-É, I-Í, O-Ó-Ô, U-Ú, Y-Ý), but then they are sorted after the unaccented letters (for example, the correct lexicographic order is baa, baá, báa, báá, bab, báb, bac, bác, bač, báč [in Czech] and baa, baá, baä, báa, báá, báä, bäa, bäá, bää, bab, báb, bäb, bac, bác, bäc, bač, báč, bäč [in Slovak]). Accented consonants have primary collating weight and are collated immediately after their unaccented counterparts, with exception of Ď, Ň and Ť (in Czech) and Ď, Ĺ, Ľ, Ň, Ŕ and Ť (in Slovak), which have again secondary weight. CH is considered to be a separate letter and goes between H and I. In Slovak, DZ and DŽ are also considered separate letters and are positioned between Ď and E.
In the Danish and Norwegian alphabets, the same extra vowels as in Swedish (see below) are also present but in a different order and with different glyphs (…, X, Y, Z, Æ, Ø, Å). Also, «Aa» collates as an equivalent to «Å». The Danish alphabet has traditionally seen «W» as a variant of «V», but today «W» is considered a separate letter.
In Dutch the combination IJ (representing Ĳ) was formerly to be collated as Y (or sometimes as a separate letter: Y < IJ < Z), but is currently mostly collated as 2 letters (II < IJ < IK). Exceptions are phone directories; IJ is always collated as Y here because in many Dutch family names Y is used where modern spelling would require IJ. Note that a word starting with ij that is written with a capital I is also written with a capital J, for example, the town IJmuiden, the river IJssel and the country IJsland (Iceland).
In Esperanto, consonants with circumflex accents (ĉ, ĝ, ĥ, ĵ, ŝ), as well as ŭ (u with breve), are counted as separate letters and collated separately (c, ĉ, d, e, f, g, ĝ, h, ĥ, i, j, ĵ … s, ŝ, t, u, ŭ, v, z).
In Estonian õ, ä, ö and ü are considered separate letters and collate after w. Letters š, z and ž appear in loanwords and foreign proper names only and follow the letter s in the Estonian alphabet, which otherwise does not differ from the basic Latin alphabet.
The Faroese alphabet also has some of the Danish, Norwegian, and Swedish extra letters, namely Æ and Ø. Furthermore, the Faroese alphabet uses the Icelandic eth, which follows the D. Five of the six vowels A, I, O, U and Y can get accents and are after that considered separate letters. The consonants C, Q, X, W and Z are not found. Therefore, the first five letters are A, Á, B, D and Ð, and the last five are V, Y, Ý, Æ, Ø
In Filipino (Tagalog) and other Philippine languages, the letter Ng is treated as a separate letter. It is pronounced as in sing, ping-pong, etc. By itself, it is pronounced nang, but in general Filipino orthography, it is spelled as if it were two separate letters (n and g). Also, letter derivatives (such as Ñ) immediately follow the base letter. Filipino also is written with diacritics, but their use is very rare (except the tilde).
The Finnish alphabet and collating rules are the same as those of Swedish.
For French, the last accent in a given word determines the order.^[14] For example, in French, the following four words would be sorted this way: cote < côte < coté < côté.
In German letters with umlaut (Ä, Ö, Ü) are treated generally just like their non-umlauted versions; ß is always sorted as ss. This makes the alphabetic order Arbeit, Arg, Ärgerlich, Argument, Arm, Assistant, Aßlar, Assoziation. For phone directories and similar lists of names, the umlauts are to be collated like the letter combinations «ae», «oe», «ue» because a number of German surnames appear both with umlaut and in the non-umlauted form with «e» (Müller/Mueller). This makes the alphabetic order Udet, Übelacker, Uell, Ülle, Ueve, Üxküll, Uffenbach.
The Hungarian vowels have accents, umlauts, and double accents, while consonants are written with single, double (digraphs) or triple (trigraph) characters. In collating, accented vowels are equivalent with their non-accented counterparts and double and triple characters follow their single originals. Hungarian alphabetic order is: A=Á, B, C, Cs, D, Dz, Dzs, E=É, F, G, Gy, H, I=Í, J, K, L, Ly, M, N, Ny, O=Ó, Ö=Ő, P, Q, R, S, Sz, T, Ty, U=Ú, Ü=Ű, V, W, X, Y, Z, Zs. (Before 1984, dz and dzs were not considered single letters for collation, but two letters each, d+z and d+zs instead.) It means that e.g. nádcukor should precede nádcsomó (even though s normally precedes u), since c precedes cs in the collation. Difference in vowel length should only be taken into consideration if the two words are otherwise identical (e.g. egér, éger). Spaces and hyphens within phrases are ignored in collation. Ch also occurs as a digraph in certain words but it is not considered as a grapheme on its own right in terms of collation.

A particular feature of Hungarian collation is that contracted forms of double di- and trigraphs (such as ggy from gy + gy or ddzs from dzs + dzs) should be collated as if they were written in full (independently of the fact of the contraction and the elements of the di- or trigraphs). For example, kaszinó should precede kassza (even though the fourth character z would normally come after s in the alphabet), because the fourth «character» (grapheme) of the word kassza is considered a second sz (decomposing ssz into sz + sz), which does follow i (in kaszinó).
In Icelandic, Þ is added, and D is followed by Ð. Each vowel (A, E, I, O, U, Y) is followed by its correspondent with acute: Á, É, Í, Ó, Ú, Ý. There is no Z, so the alphabet ends: … X, Y, Ý, Þ, Æ, Ö.
- Both letters were also used by Anglo-Saxon scribes who also used the Runic letter Wynn to represent /w/.
- Þ (called thorn; lowercase þ) is also a Runic letter.
- Ð (called eth; lowercase ð) is the letter D with an added stroke.
Kiowa is ordered on phonetic principles, like the Brahmic scripts, rather than on the historical Latin order. Vowels come first, then stop consonants ordered from the front to the back of the mouth, and from negative to positive voice-onset time, then the affricates, fricatives, liquids, and nasals:

A, AU, E, I, O, U, B, F, P, V, D, J, T, TH, G, C, K, Q, CH, X, S, Z, L, Y, W, H, M, N

In Lithuanian, specifically Lithuanian letters go after their Latin originals. Another change is that Y comes just before J: … G, H, I, Į, Y, J, K…
In Polish, specifically Polish letters derived from the Latin alphabet are collated after their originals: A, Ą, B, C, Ć, D, E, Ę, …, L, Ł, M, N, Ń, O, Ó, P, …, S, Ś, T, …, Z, Ź, Ż. The digraphs for collation purposes are treated as if they were two separate letters.
In Portuguese, the collating order is just like in English: A, B, C, D, E, F, G, H, I, J, K, L, M, N, O, P, Q, R, S, T, U, V, W, X, Y, Z. Digraphs and letters with diacritics are not included in the alphabet.
In Romanian, special characters derived from the Latin alphabet are collated after their originals: A, Ă, Â, …, I, Î, …, S, Ș, T, Ț, …, Z.
In Serbo-Croatian and other related South Slavic languages, the five accented characters and three conjoined characters are sorted after the originals: …, C, Č, Ć, D, DŽ, Đ, E, …, L, LJ, M, N, NJ, O, …, S, Š, T, …, Z, Ž.
Spanish treated (until 1994) «CH» and «LL» as single letters, giving an ordering of cinco, credo, chispa and lomo, luz, llama. This is not true any more since in 1994 the RAE adopted the more conventional usage, and now LL is collated between LK and LM, and CH between CG and CI. The six characters with diacritics Á, É, Í, Ó, Ú, Ü are treated as the original letters A, E, I, O, U, for example: radio, ráfaga, rana, rápido, rastrillo. The only Spanish-specific collating question is Ñ (eñe) as a different letter collated after N.
In the Swedish alphabet, there are three extra vowels placed at its end (…, X, Y, Z, Å, Ä, Ö), similar to the Danish and Norwegian alphabet, but with different glyphs and a different collating order. The letter «W» has been treated as a variant of «V», but in the 13th edition of Svenska Akademiens ordlista (2006) «W» was considered a separate letter.
In the Turkish alphabet there are 6 additional letters: ç, ğ, ı, ö, ş, and ü (but no q, w, and x). They are collated with ç after c, ğ after g, ı before i, ö after o, ş after s, and ü after u. Originally, when the alphabet was introduced in 1928, ı was collated after i, but the order was changed later so that letters having shapes containing dots, cedilles or other adorning marks always follow the letters with corresponding bare shapes. Note that in Turkish orthography the letter I is the majuscule of dotless ı, whereas İ is the majuscule of dotted i.
In many Turkic languages (such as Azeri or the Jaꞑalif orthography for Tatar), there used to be the letter Gha (Ƣƣ), which came between G and H. It is now in disuse.
In Vietnamese, there are 7 additional letters: ă, â, đ, ê, ô, ơ, ư while f, j, w, z are absent, even though they are still in some use (like Internet address, foreign loan language). «f» is replaced by the combination «ph». The same as for «w» is «qu».
In Volapük ä, ö and ü are counted as separate letters and collated separately (a, ä, b … o, ö, p … u, ü, v) while q and w are absent.^[15]
In Welsh the digraphs CH, DD, FF, NG, LL, PH, RH, and TH are treated as single letters, and each is listed after the first character of the pair (except for NG which is listed after G), producing the order A, B, C, CH, D, DD, E, F, FF, G, NG, H, and so on. It can sometimes happen, however, that word compounding results in the juxtaposition of two letters which do not form a digraph. An example is the word LLONGYFARCH (composed from LLON + GYFARCH). This results in such an ordering as, for example, LAWR, LWCUS, LLONG, LLOM, LLONGYFARCH (NG is a digraph in LLONG, but not in LLONGYFARCH). The letter combination R+H (as distinct from the digraph RH) may similarly arise by juxtaposition in compounds, although this tends not to produce any pairs in which misidentification could affect the ordering. For the other potentially confusing letter combinations that may occur – namely, D+D and L+L – a hyphen is used in the spelling (e.g. AD-DAL, CHWIL-LYS).

Automation[edit]

Collation algorithms (in combination with sorting algorithms) are used in computer programming to place strings in alphabetical order. A standard example is the Unicode Collation Algorithm, which can be used to put strings containing any Unicode symbols into (an extension of) alphabetical order.^[14] It can be made to conform to most of the language-specific conventions described above by tailoring its default collation table. Several such tailorings are collected in Common Locale Data Repository.

Similar orderings[edit]

The principle behind alphabetical ordering can still be applied in languages that do not strictly speaking use an alphabet – for example, they may be written using a syllabary or abugida – provided the symbols used have an established ordering.

For logographic writing systems, such as Chinese hanzi or Japanese kanji, the method of radical-and-stroke sorting is frequently used as a way of defining an ordering on the symbols. Japanese sometimes uses pronunciation order, most commonly with the Gojūon order but sometimes with the older Iroha ordering.

In mathematics, lexicographical order is a means of ordering sequences in a manner analogous to that used to produce alphabetical order.^[16]

Some computer applications use a version of alphabetical order that can be achieved using a very simple algorithm, based purely on the ASCII or Unicode codes for characters. This may have non-standard effects such as placing all capital letters before lower-case ones. See ASCIIbetical order.

A rhyming dictionary is based on sorting words in alphabetical order starting from the last to the first letter of the word.

References[edit]

^ Reinhard G. Lehmann: «27-30-22-26. How Many Letters Needs an Alphabet? The Case of Semitic», in: The idea of writing: Writing across borders, edited by Alex de Voogt and Joachim Friedrich Quack, Leiden: Brill 2012, pp. 11–52.
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d Street, Julie (10 June 2020). «From A to Z — the surprising history of alphabetical order» (text and audio). ABC News (ABC Radio National). Australian Broadcasting Corporation. Retrieved 6 July 2020.
^ e.g. Psalms 25, 34, 37, 111, 112, 119 and 145 of the Hebrew Bible
^ Daly, Lloyd. Contributions to the History of Alphabetization in Antiquity and the Middle Ages. Brussels, 1967. p. 25.
^ O’Hara, James (1989). «Messapus, Cycnus, and the Alphabetical Order of Vergil’s Catalogue of Italian Heroes». Phoenix. 43 (1): 35–38. doi:10.2307/1088539. JSTOR 1088539.
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- Lay summary in: Colleen Flaherty (22 October 2018). «The Case Against Alphabetical Naming of Authors». Inside Higher Ed.
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Will word alphabetize a list?

You can sort a one-level bulleted or numbered list so the text appears in ascending (A to Z) or descending (Z to A) alphabetical order. Select the list you want to sort. Go to Home > Sort.

Is there a program that will alphabetize a list?

You can quickly and easily sort the text of a bulleted or numbered list in Microsoft’s popular Word program so that your text is in alphabetical order. In the Sort Text dialog box, under Sort by, click Paragraphs and Text, and then click either Ascending or Descending.

Is alphabetized a verb?

verb (used with object), al·pha·bet·ized, al·pha·bet·iz·ing. to put or arrange in alphabetical order.

What does it mean by alphabetical?

1 usually alphabetical : arranged in the order of the letters of the alphabet. 2 : of, relating to, or employing an alphabet.

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Select the text in a bulleted or numbered list. On the Home tab, in the Paragraph group, click Sort. In the Sort Text dialog box, under Sort by, click Paragraphs and then Text, and then click either Ascending or Descending. Modify these drop-downs and radio buttons to sort as you intend.

How do I arrange my references in alphabetical order?

Reference List Order

Arrange entries in alphabetical order by the surname of the first author followed by the initials of the author’s given name(s).
When alphabetizing names, disregard any spaces or punctuation marks in two-word surnames. Also disregard anything in parentheses or square brackets.

How do you write words in ABC order?

To put words in alphabetical order, we should look at the first letter of each word. If more than one word starts with the same letter, you should look at the second letter of the word. In some cases, you may need to look at the third word if two or more words have the same first and second letters.

Can I sort a table in Word?

Sort a table in Word. Select anywhere in the table. Select Table Tools Layout > Sort. … To sort on a second column, select Then by and select another column.

How do you insert current date in Word?

Insert today’s date

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How do I indent text in Word?

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Select the paragraph to be indented;
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Who invented alphabetical order?

Our alphabet can be traced all the way back to ancient Egypt, where foreign workers developed alphabetic lettering while the Egyptians themselves were still using hieroglyphics. This first alphabet was adapted by the Phoenicians, whose Mediterranean civilization thrived from 1500 to 300 BC.

What is the longest word in alphabetical?

The longest word whose letters are in alphabetical order is the eight-letter Aegilops, a grass genus. However, this is arguably a proper noun. There are several six-letter English words with their letters in alphabetical order, including abhors, almost, begins, biopsy, chimps and chintz.

Why is there an order to the alphabet?

The alphabet may have had a numerical component, and the order is reverse-engineered to the follow and match the numbers that the letters represented for merchants. … When the Greeks borrowed the Phoenician letters, they added their own homemade letters to the end, like the ancestral X.

How do you explain ABC order to a child?

How to Teach Students How to Use ABC Order? Teach students how to alphabetize words using only the first letter of the word. Students will learn to alphabetize words using the second and third letters. Fourth graders and up will benefit from alphabetizing words from the fourth letter and beyond.

How do you teach ABC order to kindergarten?

Follow these tips to help reinforce Stage 1 alphabetizing skills:

Work with your child to put the letter tiles in order at the beginning of each spelling or reading lesson.
Sing the alphabet song together.
Demonstrate how to start from different points in the alphabet. …
Hand your child the letter tiles in random order.

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After this question, is there a word for a word where all of its letters are in alphabetical order?

Examples of such words:

AEGILOPS
BILLOWY
ALMOST

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You can call them abecedarian words.

Abecedarian is an adjective meaning «being arranged alphabetically». It comes from the Latin abecedarius, which means «alphabetical,» based on the names of the first letters of the Latin alphabet.

For example, below are the terms mentioned in a personal site:

Abecedarian Words: Words with letters in alphabetical order
Strictly Abecedarian Words: Words with letters in alphabetical order without repetitions

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It is also mentioned in this stackoverflow question:
Counting abecedarian words in a list: Python

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There are fifty-three such words, but nobody seems to have coined a term for them.

some more examples: biopsy, abort, begin.

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All the words in a dictionary are listed alphabetically.

This quiz looks at the alphabetical order of words. It asks children to alphabetise groups of words. This game builds upon the National Curriculum’s expectation that all KS1 children know the order of the alphabet. This quiz is an extension to the Alphabetical Order (Letters) quiz and is designed for Year 2 pupils. It will help with their command of literacy and, of course, the English language.

When putting words in alphabetical order, we focus on the first letter of each word. To make sure the words are in the correct order, you may need to sing the alphabet in your head each time.

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Put these words in order: ship, captain, sea, open, sailors, ocean.

captain, ship, ocean, open, sailors, sea

captain, ocean, open, sailors, sea, ship

ocean, open, sailors, sea, captain, ship

captain, sea, ship, sailors, open, ocean

Look at the second letter to help you. Put these words in order: gas, grass, gold, gum.

gas, gold, grass, gum

gum, gold, grass, gold

gas, gum, grass, gold

gas, gold, gum, grass

Put these words in order: seat, car, wheel, engine.

car, engine, seat, wheel

wheel, engine, seat, car

engine, car, seat, wheel

car, engine, wheel, seat

Put these words in order: school, teacher, pupil, book, work.

book, pupil, teacher, school, work

book, pupil, school, work, teacher

school, work, teacher, pupil, book

book, pupil, school, teacher, work

‘Apple, banana…’ If these words are in alphabetical order, which word comes next?

dog

cactus

elephant

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Put these words in order: cows, pigs, sheep, chickens, farm.

farm, pigs, sheep, chickens, cows

chickens, cows, farm, pigs, sheep

pigs, sheep, cows, chickens, farm

cows, chickens, farm, pigs, sheep

Put these words in order: red, yellow, pink, purple

pink, red, yellow, purple

pink, yellow, red, purple

pink, purple, red, yellow

pink, purple, yellow, red

Put these words in order: face, nose, eyes, mouth.

eyes, face, nose, mouth

face, eyes, mouth, nose

eyes, mouth, nose, face

eyes, face, mouth, nose

Put these words in order: snow, ice, cold, winter, freezing

cold, ice, freezing, snow, winter

cold, freezing, ice, snow, winter

cold, freezing, ice, winter, snow

snow, freezing, winter, cold, ice

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‘dog, fox…’ If these are in alphabetical order, which word would come next?

zebra

helicopter

army

mango

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To be able to effectively set the words in alphabetical order, you must first know the alphabet and its correct order.

To put words in alphabetical order, we should look at the first letter of each word.

Example:

ape, ball, dad, game, sun, yoyo

If more than one word starts with the same letter, you should look at the second letter of the word.

Example:

Carabao, farm, fish, goat

In some cases, you may need to look at the third word if two or more words have the same first and second letters.

Examples:

Block, black

brand, bread

We need to know the alphabet and alphabetical order to complete many tasks such as doing research, looking for a telephone number in a telephone directory and finding a word in the dictionary.

Here are some examples:

Days of the week- Friday, Monday, Saturday, Sunday, Thursday, Tuesday, Wednesday

Months of the Year- April, February, January, March, May

Names- Bert, Carina, Daniel, Elijah, Errol

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History[edit]

Ordering in the Latin script[edit]

Basic order and examples[edit]

Treatment of multiword strings[edit]

Special cases[edit]

Modified letters[edit]

Ordering by surname[edit]

The and other common words[edit]

Mac prefixes[edit]

St prefix[edit]

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How do you write words in ABC order?

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How do you insert current date in Word?

How do I indent text in Word?

Who invented alphabetical order?

What is the longest word in alphabetical?

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How do you teach ABC order to kindergarten?

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Alphabetical Order Worksheets

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