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Definition: TRIPHTHONG |
TRIPHTHONGNoun1. A combination of three vowel sounds in a single syllable, forming a simple or compound sound; also, a union of three vowel characters, representing together a single sound; a trigraph; as, eye, -ieu in adieu, -eau in beau, are examples of triphthongs. |
Etymology: Triphthong \Triph"thong\, noun. [Prefix tri- -phthong, as in diphthong: compare to the French expression triphthonque.]. (Websters 1913) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Letter | Consonant, vowel; diphthong, triphthong; mute, liquid, labial, dental, guttural. syllable; monosyllable, dissyllable, polysyllable; affix, suffix. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: TRIPHTHONG |
| English words defined with "TRIPHTHONG": Trigraph, Triphthongal. (references) |
| "TRIPHTHONG" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "TRIPHTHONG" is used about 4 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 100% | 4 | 175,879 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Language | Translations for "TRIPHTHONG"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | triftong. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | الثلحرف ثلاثة أحرف يرسم بهم صوت واحد. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | трифтонг, тригласна. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | triphtongue. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | τρίφθογγοσ (trigraph). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | triftongus. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | trittongo. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | iphthongtray tritongo. (various references) triftong. (various references) трифтонг. (various references) troglasnik, triftong. (various references) triptongo. (various references) triftong. (various references) üç sesli hece. (various references) трифтонг. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "TRIPHTHONG": triphthongal, triphthongs. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "g-h-h-i-n-o-p-r-t-t" | |
-2 letters: trothing. | |
-3 letters: hotting, porting, potting, rotting, tonight. | |
-4 letters: hoping, intort, opting, poring, righto, roping, throng, toping, toting, trigon, triton, tropin. | |
-5 letters: gipon, giron, girth, griot, gript, grith, groin, hight, ingot, intro, night, nitro, north, ohing, oping, orpin, pingo, pinot, pinto, pirog, piton, point, print, prion, prong, rhino, right, thigh, thing, thong, thorn, thorp, thrip. | |
| Words containing the letters "g-h-h-i-n-o-p-r-t-t" | |
+1 letter: triphthongs. | |
+2 letters: triphthongal. | |
+4 letters: trothplighting. | |
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