NYT Dictionary
TRIGRAM
NounTRI-gramtri-gram · 2 syllablesAdvanced/Professional
Accepted in official NYT Spelling Bee puzzle years: 2023
Meaning
A trigraph, a sequence of three letters representing one phoneme.
Etymology
Origin: Latin
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *tréyes Proto-Indo-European *tri- Proto-Italic *tri- Latin tri-der. English tri- Proto-Indo-European *gerbʰ- Proto-Hellenic *grə́pʰō Ancient Greek γρᾰ́φω (grắphō) Proto-Indo-European *-mn̥ Proto-Hellenic *-mə Ancient Greek -μᾰ (-mă) Ancient Greek γράμμα (grámma)lbor. English -gram English trigram From tri- + -gram, literally “three marks”.
NYT Puzzle Appearances
Accepted in 1 recorded puzzle: