Newsletter

How to spell newsletter

10 letters · 3 syllables

How to pronounce newsletter

Say the part in capitals loudest.

What does newsletter mean?

1. nounA printed or emailed bulletin issued regularly to members, customers, or subscribers with recent news and updates.

Newsletter in a sentence

• The company sends a monthly newsletter to every customer on its mailing list.

• She designed the school newsletter using a simple two-column layout.

Where does newsletter come from?

Language of origin: Germanic

This is a transparent English compound formed from 'news' and 'letter', both of which are old members of the language. 'News' began life as the plural of 'new', meaning fresh or recent reports, and crystallised in the late Middle Ages as a noun for tidings; 'letter' came through Old French from the Latin littera, meaning a single character of the alphabet and, in the plural, a written message. The two words were joined to describe a printed bulletin of current information, with the earliest such 'newsletters' being handwritten or printed sheets of commercial and political reports circulated in the 1600s. The modern sense, a regularly issued bulletin sent to a defined group of members, customers, or subscribers, settled in during the twentieth century. Because it is simply two familiar words run together, the only spelling trap is remembering that it is written as a single solid word with the doubled t of 'letter' intact.

How the word is built

• news (recent reports of events)
• letter (written communication)