Explore Digraph through 10+ example sentences from English, with an explanation of the meaning and related words like letter. Ideal for language learners, writers and word enthusiasts.
Digraph meaning
A directed graph.
Synonyms of Digraph
Using Digraph
- The main meaning on this page is: A directed graph.
- Useful related words include: digram, letter, alphabetic character.
- In the example corpus, digraph often appears in combinations such as: the digraph, digraph sh, digraph or.
Context around Digraph
- Average sentence length in these examples: 26.8 words
- Position in the sentence: 7 start, 10 middle, 3 end
- Sentence types: 20 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Digraph
- In this selection, "digraph" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 26.8 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, same, hierarchical, english, used, diacritics and consisting stand out and add context to how "digraph" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include a double digraph but there and a hierarchical digraph by the. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "digraph" sits close to words such as abdulai, abhinandan and abhor, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with digraph
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
Also, digraph diacritics are often used and sometimes even mixed with diacritical letters of standard orthography. (16 words)
In addition, there are also some runes which stand for a particular English digraph or diphthong. (16 words)
Similarly, the digraph "TH" is the most likely pair of letters in English, and so on. (16 words)
A phoneme may be represented by a multigraph (sequence of more than one grapheme), as the digraph sh represents a single sound in English (and sometimes a single grapheme may represent more than one phoneme, as with the Russian letter я ). (41 words)
It has one rune for each letter, regardless of pronunciation (for example the rune "C" can sound main in the word "cat" or main in the word "cellar" or even main in the word "delicious" and main in the digraph "CH"). (41 words)
Additionally, when written in capitals, "ß" is replaced with "ss" in Germany, whereas in Austria it is traditionally replaced with "sz" (the same digraph used in Hungarian for the "s" sound); there are some exceptions to these rules (see below). (40 words)
Example sentences (20)
Additionally, when written in capitals, "ß" is replaced with "ss" in Germany, whereas in Austria it is traditionally replaced with "sz" (the same digraph used in Hungarian for the "s" sound); there are some exceptions to these rules (see below).
Also, digraph diacritics are often used and sometimes even mixed with diacritical letters of standard orthography.
A phoneme may be represented by a multigraph (sequence of more than one grapheme), as the digraph sh represents a single sound in English (and sometimes a single grapheme may represent more than one phoneme, as with the Russian letter я ).
Cycles To handle a molecule containing one or more cycles, one must first expand it into a tree (called a hierarchical digraph by the authors) by traversing bonds in all possible paths starting at the stereocenter.
In addition, there are also some runes which stand for a particular English digraph or diphthong.
In the latter case an escape sequence is a digraph consisting of an escape character itself and a "quoted" character.
It has one rune for each letter, regardless of pronunciation (for example the rune "C" can sound main in the word "cat" or main in the word "cellar" or even main in the word "delicious" and main in the digraph "CH").
Jespersen suggested that it might be possible instead of the digraph SH to use the phonetic symbol ʃ. For more details, see the Pronunciation Guide of the Novial Wikibook.
Scribal realization of the digraph could look like a pair of Vs whose branches crossed in the middle.
Several letters have no modern counterpart. collapsible Note that yery (ⰟⰉ) is a digraph of either yer (Ⱏ) or yerь (Ⱐ), followed by either izhe (Ⰹ, Ⰺ) or i (Ⰻ).
Similarly, the digraph "TH" is the most likely pair of letters in English, and so on.
The digraph ae or ligature æ in some words tend to be given an /aɪ/ pronunciation, for example, curriculum vitae.
The digraph ti often corresponds to the sound /ʃ/ (a voiceless palato-alveolar sibilant ) word-medially when followed by a vowel, as in nation, ratio, negotiation, and Croatia.
The digraph Uo was discarded in 1914, and the letter Ō has not been used in the official Latvian language since 1946.
The former digraph ny is now written ɲ when it designates a palatal nasal glide; the ny spelling is kept for the combination of a nasal vowel with a subsequent oral palatal glide.
The IPA is used to teach the different pronunciations of the digraph th ( /θ/, /ð/ ) and to show the pronunciation of newly introduced words polite, everything, always, forget.
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.
These two strategies produce words that are spelled differently but pronounced identically, as in mane (silent e strategy), main (digraph strategy) and Maine (both strategies).
Use in writing systems English In English the digraph qu most often denotes the cluster main, except in borrowings from French where it represents main as in 'plaque'.
Usually a trigraph is a double digraph, but there are a few exceptions: tizennyolc ("eighteen") is a concatenation of tizen + nyolc.
Common combinations with digraph
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- the digraph 12×
- digraph sh 2×
- digraph or 2×
- is digraph 2×
- digraph th 2×