pentagraph
Sign in to saveA pentagraph (from the , pénte, "five" and γράφω, gráphō, "write") is a sequence of five letters used to represent a single sound (phoneme), or a combination of sounds, that do not correspond to the individual values of the letters. In German, for example, the pentagraph tzsch represents the sound of the English digraph ch, and indeed is found in the English word Nietzschean. Irish has several pentagraphs.
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- Followed by
- hexagraph
- Follows
- tetragraph
- Has parts of class
- letter
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- Latin-script pentagraphs
- Cyrillic-script pentagraphs
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A pentagraph (from the , pénte, "five" and γράφω, gráphō, "write") is a sequence of five letters used to represent a single sound (phoneme), or a combination of sounds, that do not correspond to the individual values of the letters. In German, for example, the pentagraph tzsch represents the sound of the English digraph ch, and indeed is found in the English word Nietzschean. Irish has several pentagraphs.
==Latin-script pentagraphs== List of Latin-script pentagraphs
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