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Meaning of heterographic | Babel Free

Adjective CEFR C1
/ˌhɛt.ə.ɹəʊˈɡɹæf.ik/

Definitions

  1. Misspelled; of or pertaining to an incorrect spelling or a spelling that differs from accepted standards.
    not-comparable
  2. Of a writing system in which a particular symbol represents more than one possible sound.
    not-comparable

Examples

“In English. many letters are heterographic.”
“Quite often, more than one heterographic monosyllable […] can represent the same mononym in particular contexts if they are semantically indifferentiable.”
“English 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.”

CEFR level

C1
Advanced
This word is part of the CEFR C1 vocabulary — advanced level.

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