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trigraph

  • /ˈtɹaɪɡɹɑːf/ UK
  • /ˈtɹaɪɡɹæf/ US

noun trigraphs

  1. 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. A three-character sequence used to enter a single conceptual character. These new features are charizing, stringization, token concatenation, string concatenation, trigraph replacement, and predefined macros.

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noun sequence of three letters

Portuguêstrígrafo
Françaistrigramme
DeutschTrigraph
Românătrigraf
Русскийтригра́ф trigráf

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@misc{trigraph_2026,
  title = {trigraph},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/trigraph},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}