orthographic neighbour

plural orthographic neighbours · alternative orthographic neighbor

1. UKcommunicationsA word that differs from another word of the same length by only one letter.

   For example, given the word 'cat', the words 'bat', 'fat', 'mat', 'cab', etc. are considered orthographic neighbors.

   n.d. Wisconsin Medical College, "MCWord: An Orthographic Wordform Database" (Definitions)

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   To go even further, the issue concerning the influence of the emotional characteristics of orthographic neighbours has never been investigated directly to our knowledge.

   2010 Pamela Gobin and Stéphanie Mathey, "The influence of emotional orthographic neighbourhood in visual word recognition," Current psychology letters [Online], Vol. 26, Issue 1, 2010 | 2010, Online since 07 October 2010, connection on 30 September 2016. URL : http://cpl.revues.org/4984