Meaning & use
qwerty
The standard layout of letters on most English-language keyboards, named after its first six letter keys.
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Almost every laptop sold in English-speaking countries uses a qwerty keyboard layout.
Typists trained on qwerty keyboards sometimes struggle to switch to alternative layouts like Dvorak.
A note on using this word
Qwerty is used both as a noun for the layout itself and as an adjective, as in 'a qwerty keyboard.'
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