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heiroglyph

heiroglyph is the misspelling of hieroglyph.

Meaning of hieroglyph

Noun

hieroglyph (plural hieroglyphs)

  1. An element (individual sign or glyph) of a hieroglyphic writing system.
    • Hieroglyphs were discovered on the wall inside the temple.
    1. In particular, an Egyptian hieroglyph.
  2. (informal) Any obscure or baffling symbol.
    • With your handwriting, it's no surprise the Prof can't read your hieroglyphs!

See all 4 meanings of hieroglyph

Forms of heiroglyph

pluralheiroglyphs

Questions about heiroglyph

What is heiroglyph the misspelling of?
Heiroglyph is the misspelling of hieroglyph.

Words near heiroglyph in the dictionary

  1. heirmoi
  2. heirmologia
  3. heirmologic
  4. heirmologion
  5. heirmos
  6. heiroglyph
  7. heiroglyphs
  8. heirophant
  9. heirophants
  10. heirs
  11. heirs and successors

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Adapted from Wiktionary: heiroglyph (page history and authors); hieroglyph (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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