lowercase

Valid in Scrabble

Scrabble points
14
Words With Friends
16
Letters
9
Pronunciation
/ˈloʊ.ɚˌkeɪs/(US)
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/ˈloʊ.ɚˌkeɪs/(US) · /ˌləʊ.ə(ɹ)ˈkeɪs/(UK) · /ˈləʊ.ə(ɹ)ˌkeɪs/(UK)

Definition of lowercase

3 senses · 3 parts of speech · etymology included

noun

  1. (alt-of, alternative, uncountable)Alternative form of lower case.
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noun

  1. (alt-of, alternative, uncountable)Alternative form of lower case.

adj

  1. (not-comparable)In lower case.

verb

  1. (transitive)To convert (text) to lower case.
    “Sister Jadallah apologizes for being unable to bring her readers facts and figures on Palestinian Lesbianism (forgive my capital "L" in Lesbianism, but like my Black brothers I cannot bring myself to lower-casing our recently empowering accoutrements of our Gay identities)”
    “I never asked Rob e. Hanson why he lowercased his middle initial; I suppose he figured a man just shouldn’t accumulate too much capital.”

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Etymology

From the noun phrase lower case, which itself consists of an adjective modifying a noun; when used as a noun adjunct then, to render its syntactical function clearer and simpler, it is written as a single word or with a hyphen as a sort of chunking.

Words you can make from lowercase

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8-letter words

1 word

7-letter words

15 words

6-letter words

48 words

5-letter words

99 words

4-letter words

36 words

Hooks

2 extensions · 2 back

A single letter you can add to lowercase to make another valid word.

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