upper-case letter
NOUN
17 LETTERS · STARTS WITH U
upper-case letter is a valid 17-letter word worth 21 points in Scrabble and 26 points in Words with Friends.
SCRABBLE
WORDS WITH FRIENDS
U1P3P3E1R1-0C3A1S1E1L1E1T1T1E1R1
1 + 3 + 3 + 1 + 1 + 0 + 3 + 1 + 1 + 1 + 0 + 1 + 1 + 1 + 1 + 1 + 1 =21 PTS
DOUBLE WORD → 42TRIPLE WORD → 63
MEANING
What does upper-case letter mean?
NOUN · 1 SENSE
1
One of the large alphabetic characters used as the first letter in writing or printing proper names and sometimes for emphasis.
“printers once kept the type for capitals and for small letters in separate cases; capitals were kept in the upper half of the type case and so became known as upper-case letters”
SYNONYMS
BROADER
NARROWER