digraph
noun/ˈdaɪˌɡɹɑːf/UK/ˈdaɪˌɡræf/US
Etymology
From Ancient Greek δίς (dís, “double”) + γράφω (gráphō, “write”), equivalent to di- + -graph.
Definitions
A directed graph.
A two-character sequence used to enter a single conceptual character.
A pair of letters, especially a pair representing a single phoneme.
- As a special education teacher, I find that introducing one or two digraphs a week works well.
- A consonant digraph is a combination of two consonants that represent one sound.
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a sequence of two lines, each of which may be unbroken, broken once, or broken twice.
The neighborhood
- neighbortrigraph
- neighbortetragraph
- neighborpentagraph
- neighborhexagraph
- neighborheptagraph
- neighboroctagraph
- neighbormonophthong
- neighbordiphthong
- neighbortriphthong
- neighborligature
Derived
Vish — recursive loop
No curated loop yet for digraph. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.
sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA