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trigraph

UK/ˈtɹaɪɡɹɑːf/US/ˈtɹaɪɡɹæf/

trigraph noun: a specific sequence of three letters, especially one used collectively to represent a single phoneme.

Noun

trigraph (plural trigraphs)

  1. A specific sequence of three letters, especially one used collectively to represent a single phoneme.
    • The letter “i” is pronounced as /aɪ/ when followed by the trigraph “ght”, as in right /raɪt/.
    • Then, practice reading fluency sentences together that contain words with trigraphs and other mastered words.2023 December 6, Sarah Forst, “How to Teach Trigraphs DGE & TCH”, in The Designer Teacher
  2. A three-character sequence used to enter a single conceptual character.
    • These new features are charizing, stringization, token concatenation, string concatenation, trigraph replacement, and predefined macros.1993, Mark Andrews, Visual C++ Object-oriented Programming, page 186

Forms of trigraph

pluraltrigraphs

Origin of trigraph

From tri- + -graph.

Questions about trigraph

What does trigraph mean?
Trigraph means a specific sequence of three letters, especially one used collectively to represent a single phoneme.
What part of speech is trigraph?
Trigraph is a noun.
How do you pronounce trigraph?
Trigraph is pronounced /ˈtɹaɪɡɹɑːf/ (UK).
What is the plural of trigraph?
The plural of trigraph is trigraphs.

Words near trigraph in the dictionary

  1. trigpoints
  2. trigram
  3. trigrammatic
  4. trigrammic
  5. trigrams
  6. trigraph
  7. trigraphic
  8. trigraphically
  9. trigraphs
  10. trigs
  11. triguttulate

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