Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

ideographic script

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.71 in modern English

Syllables: ideo-graph-ic script
IPA

30

Scrabble Score

17

Letters

3

Syllables

12

Unique Chars

Meaning

n

a writing system in which graphemes are ideograms representing concepts or ideas, rather than a specific word in a language.

Example Sentences

"The successful decipherment was preceded by a long period during which hieroglyphs were wrongly believed to be a purely ideographic script."

Questions

What does ideographic script mean?: a writing system in which graphemes are ideograms representing concepts or ideas, rather than a specific word in a language.

How to pronounce ideographic script

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