It also means that their letters can be used as an alternative method of 'numbering' ordered items, in such contexts as numbered lists.' This makes them useful for purposes of collation, specifically by allowing words to be sorted in alphabetical order. Alphabets are usually associated with a standard ordering of their letters.

Many languages use modified forms of the Latin alphabet, with additional letters formed using diacritical marks. There are dozens of alphabets in use today, the most popular being the Latin alphabet (which was derived from the Greek). This is in contrast to other types of writing systems, such as syllabaries (in which each character represents a syllable) and logographies (in which each character represents a word, morpheme, or semantic unit). 'An alphabet is a standard set of letters (basic written symbols or graphemes) which is used to write one or more languages based on the general principle that the letters represent phonemes (basic significant sounds) of the spoken language. The vector stencils library 'ABC' contains 87 symbols of English letters, numerals and punctuation marks.

Microsoft clip art free abc letters