Besides its most common meaning as the first letter of any word or name, an initial is a letter at the beginning of a written work, a chapter or a paragraph that is larger than the rest of the text and often decorative.
Initial may also refer to:
- Initial (linguistics), part of a syllable that precedes the syllable nucleus in phonetics and phonology
- Initial, an abbreviation for a person's given or middle name or both
- Rentokil Initial, a British business services group
- Initial Records, an American record label
- Initial (album), the debut album by the band Person L
See also
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