Lowercase letters are the shorter, smaller versions of letters (like w), as opposed to the bigger, taller versions (like W), which are called uppercase letters or capital letters. ... To capitalize a word is to make its first letter a capital or uppercase letter.

What is a lowercase letter example?

Lowercase letters aren't capitalized — they're the smaller versions of each letter. For example, this is a lowercase "a" while this its big brother: the capital "A." Sometimes people get sloppy and write in all lowercase letters on email.

What is upper and lowercase letter?

Upper case letters (also called capital letters) are used at the beginning of a sentence or for the first letter of a proper noun. Lower case letters are all the other letters that don't begin sentences and aren't the first letter of a proper noun.