different between orthography vs heterography

English

Etymology

From Anglo-Norman ortografie, Middle French orthographie, and their source, Latin orthographia, from Hellenistic Ancient Greek ?????????? (orthographía), from ????? (orthós, “correct”) and ????? (gráph?, “write”).

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /??????.??.fi/
• (US) enPR: ôrthä?gr?f?, IPA^(key): /??????.??.fi/
• Hyphenation: or?thog?ra?phy
• Rhymes: -????fi

Noun

orthography (countable and uncountable, plural orthographies)

1. The study of correct spelling according to established usage.
2. The aspect of language study concerned with letters and their sequences in words.
3. Synonym of spelling: the specific method of representing a language or the sounds of language by written symbols.
4. (architecture) Orthographic projection; especially its use to draw an elevation, vertical projection etc. of a building.

Quotations

• For quotations using this term, see Citations:orthography.

Synonyms

• (study of representing sound in writing): orthoepy (inexact)

Coordinate terms

• (study of representing sound in writing): orthoepy

Derived terms

Translations

Verb

orthography (third-person singular simple present orthographies, present participle orthographying, simple past and past participle orthographied)

1. (transitive) To write according to established usage.

English

Etymology

From hetero- +? -graphy.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /h?t.?????.??.fi/
• (US) IPA^(key): /h?t.????.???.fi/
• Rhymes: -????fi

Noun

heterography (countable and uncountable, plural heterographies)

1. (countable) An incorrect spelling; a spelling different from accepted spelling.
2. (uncountable) Spelling in which a particular letter represents more than one possible sound.

   Heterography in English makes it difficult for foreigners to learn pronunciation.

Synonyms

• (incorrect spelling): misspelling

Derived terms

• heterographic

Related terms

• orthography

Translations

Anagrams

• erythrophage