orthography

Other forms of orthography

plural

orthographies·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about orthography

What does orthography mean?

orthography means "a method of representing the sounds of a language by written or printed symbols".

How many syllables are in orthography?

orthography has 4 syllables: or-tho-gra-phy. The stress falls on "tho". In IPA it is /ɔɹˈθɑɡɹəfi/.

What is another word for orthography?

Close synonyms include writing system. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is orthography a common word?

orthography is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

What rhymes with orthography?

1 word rhymes with orthography. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.