Heterographic

Pronunciation

• UK IPA: /ËŒhÉ›t.É™.ɹəʊˈɡɹæf.ik/
• US IPA: /ËŒhÉ›t.É™.ɹoʊˈɡɹæf.ik/

Origin

From heterography.

Full definition of heterographic

Adjective

1. Misspelled; of or pertaining to an incorrect spelling or a spelling that differs from accepted standards.
2. (linguistics) Of a writing system in which a particular symbol represents more than one possible sound.In English. many letters are heterographic.
• 2000, Po-Ching Yip, The Chinese Lexicon: A Comprehensive Survey‎, page 16Quite often, more than one heterographic monosyllable ... can represent the same mononym in particular contexts if they are semantically indifferentiable.
• 2008, Elena L. Grigorenko & Adam J. Naples, Single-word Reading: Behavioral and Biological Perspectives''‎, page 140English 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.

Synonyms

• (misspelled) misspelled, misspelt

Antonyms

• (of a writing system) homographic

Related terms

• heterography