Meanings
- not comparableMisspelled; of or pertaining to an incorrect spelling or a spelling that differs from accepted standards.
- not comparablehuman sciencesOf a writing system in which a particular symbol represents more than one possible sound.
In English. many letters are heterographic.
2 more examples
Quite often, more than one heterographic monosyllable […] can represent the same mononym in particular contexts if they are semantically indifferentiable.
2000, Po-Ching Yip, The Chinese Lexicon: A Comprehensive Survey, page 16English has few such heterophonic homographs, hence much of the work in English (and French) examining orthography-phonology consistency effects at the whole-word level has focused on heterographic homophones.
2008, Elena L. Grigorenko, Adam J. Naples, Single-word Reading: Behavioral and Biological Perspectives, page 140
Synonyms & antonyms
antonym(s) of “of a writing system”
Origin
Translations
French hétérographique
- hétérographiquelinguistics: of a writing system in which a particular symbol represents more than one possible sound
Polish heterograficzny, heterograficzny
- heterograficznymisspelled; of or pertaining to an incorrect spelling
- heterograficznylinguistics: of a writing system in which a particular symbol represents more than one possible sound
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