overwordExplorer
ENGLISH · A WORD WITH POSSIBILITIES

trigram.

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

7 characters2 syllables approx.English language

Meaning & usage

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

  2. An n-gram consisting of three items from a sequence.

  3. Any of the eight combinations of three complete or broken lines forming half of a hexagram in Chinese system of divination I Ching.

Where this word comes from

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”.

FROM WORD TO NAME

Try it on your idea.

trigram has 7 characters. Say it out loud, try it alongside a description of your project, and see whether its meaning fits what you want to create.

trigram studiotrigram workshello, trigram

These are naming prompts. Meanings and pronunciation can vary; existing brand and domain uses have not been checked.

Explore the name generator

A word with a source.

Definitions, grammatical labels, IPA, etymology and examples: Wiktionary contributors, extracted by Kaikki / Wiktextract. Adapted under CC BY-SA 4.0. Selected fields and authored examples are shown; third-party quotations and audio are omitted. See contributor history.

Last enriched 2026-09-10. Definitions are in English. Romanizations are shown when supplied by the source; syllable estimates are omitted for unsupported scripts.