Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

bigram

/ˈbaɪ.ɡɹæm/

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.16 in modern English

Syllables: bi-gram
IPA: /ˈbaɪ.ɡɹæm/

11

Scrabble Score

6

Letters

2

Syllables

6

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

An n-gram consisting of two items from a sequence; a 2-gram.

Example Sentences

"bigram model"
"Durrant (2009), for example, developed a list of 1000 academic two-word bigrams, of which 763 were lexical words combined with function words."

Etymology

From bi- + -gram.

Word Breakdown

Prefix: bi
Suffix: gram

Regional Pronunciation

American English: /ˈbaɪ.ɡɹæm/

Inflected Forms

bigrams (plural)

Frequently Paired Words

trigram

Questions

How do you pronounce bigram?: The recorded pronunciation is /ˈbaɪ.ɡɹæm/.
What does bigram mean?: An n-gram consisting of two items from a sequence; a 2-gram.
Where does bigram come from?: From bi- + -gram.

How to pronounce bigram

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