trigraph

About 0.01 uses per million words.

Meaning

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

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

2. noun A three-character sequence used to enter a single conceptual character.

Similar words

trigram pentagraph multigraph hexagraph digraph polygraph phonogram grapheme digram triangular colon

Often followed by

sequences is sequence

Word family

trigraphic trigraphs