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trigram

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.50 in modern English

Syllables
tri-gram
IPA
10
Scrabble Score
7
Letters
2
Syllables
6
Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

A trigraph, a sequence of three letters representing one phoneme.

noun

An n-gram consisting of three items from a sequence.

noun

Any of the eight combinations of three complete or broken lines forming half of a hexagram in Chinese system of divination I Ching.

Example Sentences

Etymology

Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *tréyes Proto-Indo-European *tri- Proto-Italic *tri- Latin tri-der. English tri- Proto-Indo-European *gerbʰ- Proto-Hellenic *grə́pʰō Ancient Greek γρᾰ́φω (grắphō) Proto-Indo-European *-mn̥ Proto-Hellenic *-mə Ancient Greek -μᾰ (-mă) Ancient Greek γράμμα (grámma)lbor. English -gram English trigram From tri- + -gram, literally “three marks”.

Inflected Forms

trigrams (plural)

Frequently Paired Words

☰ ☱ ☲ ☳ ☴ ☵ ☶ ☷

Questions

What does trigram mean?
A trigraph, a sequence of three letters representing one phoneme.
Where does trigram come from?
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *tréyes Proto-Indo-European *tri- Proto-Italic *tri- Latin tri-der. English tri- Proto-Indo-European *gerbʰ- Proto-Hellenic *grə́pʰō Ancient Greek γρᾰ́φω (grắphō) Proto-Indo-European *-mn̥ Proto-Hellenic *-mə Ancient Greek -μᾰ (-mă) Ancient Greek γράμμα (grámma)lbor. English -gram English trigram From tri- + -gram, literally “three marks”.

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