EGAVE

alphabetize

About 0.03 uses per million words.

Meaning

  1. verb To arrange words or items in order of the first (and then subsequent) letters as they occur in the alphabet.
    It was almost impossible to locate specific books in the library until we had alphabetized them by the authors' surnames.

Similar words

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Often followed by

the by them a your words it and according

Word family

alphabetized alphabetizer alphabetizers alphabetizes alphabetizing

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