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the above transcription of letter is a detailed (narrow) transcription according to the rules of the International Phonetic Association; you can find a description of each symbol by clicking the phoneme buttons in the secction below.
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An example use of letter in a speech by a native speaker of american english:
“… I saw the wit wrote a letter to her to …”
A letter is a written message sent by one person to another.
the word letter occurs in english on average 78.5 times per one million words; this frequency warrants it to be in the study list for A2 level of language mastery according to CEFR, the Common European Framework of Reference.