Letter Sets
Inspired by both the List of Things and a puzzle I wrote last year, this is a list of sets of letters. Entries in brackets are considered semi-canonical; they exist in some lists but aren't definitively in the set.
Sets of Three
RGB - Light colours
XYZ - Cartesian axes
TMO - Dash only Morse code
BLT - Sandwich
AZE - Isotope notation
Sets of Four
NESW - Cardinal directions
UDLR - Orthogonal directions
AJQK - Playing cards
CMYK - Printer inks
SATB - Voice types
ACGT - DNA nucleobases
ACGU - RNA nucleobases
WASD - Keyboard movement
ABXY - Xbox controller buttons
HJKL - Vim navigation buttons
EISH - Dot only Morse code
Sets of Five
RNBQK (+P) - Chess pieces
ACGTU - Nucleobases
PRNDL (+SB) - Automatic gearstick
LITSO - Free tetrominoes
AEIOU (+Y) - Vowels
GJPQY - Descenders (lower case)
ABCDF - US Letter grades
DRABC - First Aid primary survey
LGBTQ (+IA) - 🏳️🌈
Sets of Six
UDSCTB - Quark flavours
UDLRFB - Faces of a Rubik's Cube
PEMDAS/BODMAS/BIDMAS/BEDMAS - Order of operations
Sets of Seven
ROYGBIV - Colours of the rainbow
IVXLCDM - Roman numerals
ABCDEFG - Western music scale
IOTJLSZ - Fixed tetrominoes
OBAFGKM - Main stellar classifications
ZXCVBNM - Keyboard bottom row
PYFGCRL - Dvorak top row
BDFHKLT - Ascenders (lower case)
HINOSXZ - Capital letters with rotational symmetry
Sets of Eight
BCDEGPTV (+Z) - Rhymes with "-ee"
Sets of Nine
ASDFGHJKL - Keyboard home row
QJKXBMWVZ - Dvorak bottom row
BCDEHIKOX - Capital letters with horizontal symmetry
Sets of Ten
QWERTYUIOP - Keyboard top row
AOEUIDHTNS - Dvorak home row
NUBTQPHSOE - Systematic element name symbols
Sets of Eleven
AHIMOTUVWXY - Capital letters with vertical symmetry
Sets of Twelve
FILNPTUVWXYZ - Pentominoes
AEHIKLMNOPUW (+') - Hawaiian alphabet
BCFHJLPQVXYZ - Four-symbol Morse code
Sets of Fourteen
HBCNOFPSKVYIWU - Single letter elements
OBAFGKMLTYDCS - Extended stellar classification
ABEZHIKMNOPTYX - Greek capital letters
Sets of Twenty
ACDEFGHIKLMNPQRSTVWY (+OU) - Amino acids
Sets of Twenty-Six
ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ - English alphabet
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