trigraph

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Etymology

From tri- +‎ -graph.

Noun

trigraph (plural trigraphs)

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

   Letter “i” is pronounced as /aɪ/ when followed by the trigraph “ght”, as in right /raɪt/.

   • 2023 June 12, Sarah Forst, “How to Teach Trigraphs DGE & TCH”, in The Designer Teacher‎:

     Then, practice reading fluency sentences together that contain words with trigraphs and other mastered words.

2. (computing) A three-character sequence used to enter a single conceptual character.
   • 1993, Mark Andrews, Visual C++ Object-oriented Programming, page 186:

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

Related terms

• digraph
• tetragraph
• pentagraph
• hexagraph
• heptagraph
• octagraph
• monophthong
• diphthong
• triphthong
• ligature

Translations

sequence of three letters

Czech: trigraf m Finnish: kolmoiskirjain, trigrafi French: trigramme (fr) m German: Trigraph (de) m Hungarian: trigráf Polish: trójznak (pl) m Portuguese: trígrafo (pt) m Romanian: trigraf n Russian: тригра́ф (ru) m (trigráf)

See also

• ligature