Letter (alphabet)
Grapheme in an alphabetic system of writing / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
In a writing system, a letter is a grapheme that generally corresponds to a phoneme—the smallest functional unit of speech—though there is rarely total one-to-one correspondence between the two. An alphabet is a writing system that uses letters.[1]
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