different between writing vs heterographic

English

Pronunciation

• enPR: r?t??ng, IPA^(key): /??a?t??/
• Hyphenation: writ?ing
• Rhymes: -a?t??

Etymology 1

From Middle English writing, writyng, wryting, wrytyng, from Old English wr?ting (“writing”), equivalent to write +? -ing.

Noun

writing (countable and uncountable, plural writings)

1. (uncountable) Graphism of symbols such as letters that express some meaning.
2. (countable) Something written, such as a document, article or book.
3. (uncountable) The process of representing a language with symbols or letters.
4. (countable) A work of an author.
5. (countable) The style of writing of a person.

   I can't read your writing.

6. (as a modifier) Intended for or used in writing.

   a writing table

Synonyms

• (written letters or symbols that express some meaning): text
• (something written): document, manuscript, text
• (work of an author): work
• (the style of writing of a person): hand, handwriting
• (intended for or used in writing): alphabet, character, ideogram, logogram, pictogram, script, syllabary, writing system

Derived terms

Translations

Etymology 2

From Middle English writinge, wrytynge, writende, writand, from Old English wr?tende, present participle of Old English wr?tan (“to scratch, carve, write”), equivalent to write +? -ing.

Verb

writing

1. present participle of write
   • 2016, VOA Learning English (public domain)

     What are you doing? ? Um, I’m writing. ? You are writing! You are writing a lot!

Anagrams

• twiring

Old English

Etymology

From wr?tan +? -ing.

Noun

wr?ting f

1. writing

Declension

Derived terms

• wr?tingfeþer f (“pen”)

Descendants

• Middle English: writing, writyng, wryting, wrytyng
  • English: writing
  • Scots: writing

English

Etymology

From heterography.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?h?t.?.??????æf.ik/
• (US) IPA^(key): /?h?t.?.?o????æf.ik/

Adjective

heterographic (not comparable)

1. Misspelled; of or pertaining to an incorrect spelling or a spelling that differs from accepted standards.
2. (linguistics) Of a writing system in which a particular symbol represents more than one possible sound.

   In English. many letters are heterographic.

   • 2008, Elena L. Grigorenko & Adam J. Naples, Single-word Reading: Behavioral and Biological Perspectives, page 140

     English has few such heterophonic homographs, hence much of the work in English (and French) examining orthography-phonology consistency effects at the whole-word level has focused on heterographic homophones.

Synonyms

• (misspelled): misspelled, misspelt

Antonyms

• (of a writing system): homographic

Related terms

• heterography

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