ENGLISH DICTIONARY

Trigraph

Definition, Meaning & Examples

Pronunciation /ˈtɹaɪɡɹɑːf/ · Part of speech noun

Quick meaning: Trigraph is a noun meaning (linguistics) A specific sequence of three letters, especially one used collectively to represent a single phoneme.

Meaning

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

More Meanings

  1. (computing) 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.

Word Forms

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include trigram, pentagraph, multigraph, hexagraph, digraph, polygraph.

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