(US, Canada) To arrange words or items in order of the first (and then subsequent) letters as they occur in the alphabet.

Third-person singular simple present indicative form of alphabetize

plural of alphabetizer

(Canada, US) Arranged in alphabetical order. / Alternative spelling of alphabetised

(Canada, US) simple past tense and past participle of alphabetize / Alternative spelling of alphabetised

One who, or that which, alphabetizes.

An initialism: an abbreviation which is read letter by letter, such as UN. / The ability to read an alphabet, a rudimentary form of literacy.

The set of letters used when writing in a language.

(rare) To designate by the letters of the alphabet; to arrange alphabetically.

Pertaining to, furnished with, or expressed by letters of the alphabet. / According to the sequence of the letters of the alphabet. / (obsolete) literal