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APHTHONG

Definition: APHTHONG

APHTHONG

Noun

1. A letter, or a combination of letters, employed in spelling a word, but in the pronunciation having no sound.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

Etymology: Aphthong \Aph"thong\, noun. [Greek expression silent; 'a priv. voice, sound, from to sound.]. (Websters 1913)


Anagrams: APHTHONG

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-g-h-h-n-o-p-t"

-3 letters: hogan, panto, tango, thong, tonga.

-4 letters: agon, atop, ghat, gnat, goat, hang, hant, hath, hong, nota, oath, opah, pang, pant, path, phat, phon, phot, pong, tang, than, toga, tong, toph.

-5 letters: ago, ant, apt, gan, gap, gat, goa, got, hag, hah, hao, hap, hat, hog, hon, hop, hot, nag, nah, nap, nog, noh.

 Words containing the letters "a-g-h-h-n-o-p-t"
 

+3 letters: diphthongal, ethnography.

 

+4 letters: ethnographer, ethnographic, triphthongal.

 

+5 letters: anthropophagi, anthropophagy, ethnographers, ethnographies, hectographing, hypothecating, lithographing, monophthongal, phosphatizing, photographing, phytopathogen, sharpshooting.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: APHTHONG


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

41 50 48 54 48 4F 4E 47

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

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Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

.-    .--.    ....    -    ....    ---    -.    --.

Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01000001 01010000 01001000 01010100 01001000 01001111 01001110 01000111

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#65 &#80 &#72 &#84 &#72 &#79 &#78 &#71

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0041 0050 0048 0054 0048 004F 004E 0047

British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

3550425442494841

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Anagrams
3. Orthography
4. Bibliography


  

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