adverb
- In a manner relating to or involving a digraph; with respect to the representation of a single sound by two letters.
Usage: linguistics; technical
Examples
- The letters 'th' function digraphically to represent a single phoneme in English.
- In Spanish, 'ch' is digraphically distinct from the individual letters 'c' and 'h'.
- The word 'phone' contains the digraphically represented sound /f/ at the beginning.
- Students learned digraphically how certain letter combinations produce unique sounds.