Trigraph

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This word is acceptable for play in the US & UK dictionaries that are being used in the following games:

The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • n. Three letters spelling one consonant, vowel, or diphthong, such as Sch in Schiller or igh in high or thigh.
  • n. A group of three letters, especially of frequent occurrence in a given language, as the or ing in English or gli in Italian.
  • n. Any combination of three letters of an alphabet. Also called trigram.
    • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • n. A specific sequence of three letters, especially one used collectively to represent a single phoneme.
    • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • n. Three letters united in pronunciation so as to have but one sound, or to form but one syllable, as -ieu in adieu; a triphthong.
    • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • n. A combination of three letters to represent one sound; a triphthong, as eau in beau.
    • Word Usage
    "The difference may be in the language to describe the concepts (rods), or the subjective value of even studying them (trigraph, linguals)."
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    triphthong   
     
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