A digraph is a combination of two letters that make a single sound, like "th" in "this." A vowel pair is two vowels that appear together in a word, where each vowel retains its individual sound, like "ea" in "eat."
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A digraph is short for directed graph.
The ck digraph is a highly reliable digraph. The letter c in the digraph is silent. It appears in the final position in words, as in duck, or in the medial position, as in chicken. The ck digraph can be confusing to children because the c is silent. The ck digraph makes the /k/ sound. The consonants k, as in bike, q as in bouquet, ch as in chaos, and c, as in camp also make the /k/ sound.
The word digraph is a noun. The plural form is digraphs.
The antonym for "digraph" is "monograph." While a digraph is a combination of two letters representing a single sound, a monograph is a scholarly piece of writing on a specific subject.
"Boat" is a word with a vowel digraph, with the "oa" representing a single vowel sound.
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Yes. The digraph OW has a long O vowel sound.
A split digraph is when a vowel digraph is split by a consonant, such as the 'e' at the end of a word making the vowel say its name as in "time" or "hope." It occurs when an 'e' at the end of a word changes the short vowel sound to a long vowel sound.
One example of a word containing the same digraph sound as "Philadelphia" is "elephant." The "ph" digraph in both words produces the same "f" sound.
No, "boy" is not a digraph. A digraph consists of two letters that together represent a single sound, such as "ch" in "chop" or "sh" in "ship." In "boy," the "oy" does function as a single vowel sound, but it is not a traditional digraph in the same sense as those formed by two consonants. Instead, "oy" is classified as a vowel team.
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