heterographic

adj
/ˌhɛt.ə.ɹəʊˈɡɹæf.ik/UK/ˌhɛt.ə.ɹoʊˈɡɹæf.ik/US

Etymology

From heterography.

Definitions

  1. Misspelled

    Misspelled; of or pertaining to an incorrect spelling or a spelling that differs from accepted standards.

  2. Of a writing system in which a particular symbol represents more than one possible sound.

    • In English. many letters are heterographic.
    • Quite often, more than one heterographic monosyllable […] can represent the same mononym in particular contexts if they are semantically indifferentiable.
    • English has few such heterophonic homographs, hence much of the work in English (and French) examining orthography-phonology consistency effects at the whole-word level has focused on heterographic homophones.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for heterographic. 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