Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

trigraph

/ˈtɹaɪɡɹæf/

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: tri-graph
IPA: /ˈtɹaɪɡɹæf/

14

Scrabble Score

8

Letters

2

Syllables

7

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

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

noun

A three-character sequence used to enter a single conceptual character.

Example Sentences

"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."
"These new features are charizing, stringization, token concatenation, string concatenation, trigraph replacement, and predefined macros."

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 γράφω (gráphō) Ancient Greek -γρᾰ́φος (-grắphos)der. English -graph English trigraph From tri- + -graph.

Regional Pronunciation

American English: /ˈtɹaɪɡɹæf/
British English: /ˈtɹaɪɡɹɑːf/

Inflected Forms

trigraphs (plural)

Frequently Paired Words

digraph tetragraph pentagraph hexagraph heptagraph octagraph monophthong diphthong

Questions

How do you pronounce trigraph?: The recorded pronunciation is /ˈtɹaɪɡɹæf/.
What does trigraph mean?: A specific sequence of three letters, especially one used collectively to represent a single phoneme.
Where does trigraph 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 γράφω (gráphō) Ancient Greek -γρᾰ́φος (-grắphos)der. English -graph English trigraph From tri- + -graph.

How to pronounce trigraph

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