trigraph

Noun

Meaning

Three letters united in pronunciation so as to have but one sound, or to form but one syllable, as -ieu in adieu; a triphthong.

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

digraph trigram

Related terms

ligature digraph diphthong triphthong monophthong tetragraph

Examples

The same combination of letters might not be the digraph or trigraph but might be just the non-nasal vowel followed by the consonant at full weight. Source: Internet

Usually a trigraph is a double digraph, but there are a few exceptions: tizennyolc ("eighteen") is a concatenation of tizen + nyolc. Source: Internet

Close letter words and terms

trigram trigrammatic trigrammic trigraphic trigs trigyn