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

  1. A trigraph, a sequence of three letters representing one phoneme.
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noun

  1. A trigraph, a sequence of three letters representing one phoneme.
  2. 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!”
  3. 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”.

Hooks

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A single letter you can add to trigram to make another valid word.

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