Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

lower-case

Word Rarity Uncommon

Frequency: 4.98 in modern English

Syllables: low-er--case
IPA

14

Scrabble Score

9

Letters

4

Syllables

8

Unique Chars

Meaning

adj

Alternative spelling of lowercase.

verb

Alternative spelling of lowercase.

Example Sentences

"Yet, as every rule has its exception, I have construed this dictum somewhat liberally and have as yet never failed to employ as big an A as I could command when the word American was used as an adjective, even while I lower-cased english, mexican and foreign nations generally."
"If a capitalized word would be lower-cased in modern usage, we lower-cased it, but we did not capitalize any word that appeared lower-cased in the original."
"And Kevin asked me to add that we have capitalized Open Source this time, to assuage tender sensibilities, even though we lower-cased it in November’s issue of Release 1.0."

Inflected Forms

lower-cases (present, singular) lower-casing (participle, present) lower-cased (participle, past) lower-cased (past)

Questions

What does lower-case mean?: Alternative spelling of lowercase.

How to pronounce lower-case

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