trigram
Valid in Scrabble
- Scrabble points
- 10
- Words With Friends
- 12
- Letters
- 7
Definition of trigram
3 senses · 1 part of speech · etymology included
noun
- A trigraph, a sequence of three letters representing one phoneme.
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noun
- A trigraph, a sequence of three letters representing one phoneme.
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An n-gram consisting of three items from a sequence.
“In fact, half of all such words for this corpus are initiated by only 39 different trigrams!”
- Any of the eight combinations of three complete or broken lines forming half of a hexagram in Chinese system of divination I Ching.
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Etymology
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *tréyes Proto-Italic *trēs Latin trēsder. Latin tri-der. English tri- Proto-Indo-European *gerbʰ- Proto-Hellenic *grə́pʰō Ancient Greek γρᾰ́φω (grắphō) Proto-Indo-European *-mn̥ Ancient Greek -μᾰ (-mă) Ancient Greek γράμμα (grámma)lbor. English -gram English trigram From tri- + -gram, literally “three marks”.
Words you can make from trigram
56 playable · top: AMRIT (7 pts)
Best play amrit 7 points5-letter words
1 word4-letter words
17 words3-letter words
26 words2-letter words
11 wordsHooks
1 extension · 1 back
A single letter you can add to trigram to make another valid word.
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