Grapheme Definition

grăfēm
graphemes
noun
graphemes
A letter of an alphabet.
American Heritage
A class consisting of all the allographs representing a given unit of a writing system, or all those representing a given phoneme.
Webster's New World
All of the letters and letter combinations that represent a phoneme, as f, ph, and gh for the phoneme /f/.
American Heritage
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Other Word Forms of Grapheme

Noun

Singular:
grapheme
Plural:
graphemes

Origin of Grapheme

  • From Ancient Greek γράφω (graphō, “write”) + -eme.

    From Wiktionary

  • graph –eme

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

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