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Digraph vs Bigram - What's the difference?

digraph | bigram |

In linguistics terms the difference between digraph and bigram

is that digraph is a pair of letters, especially a pair representing a single phoneme while bigram is a pair, often of words or tags, used in analysis.

As nouns the difference between digraph and bigram

is that digraph is a directed graph while bigram is a pair, often of words or tags, used in analysis.

digraph

English

Etymology 1

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Noun

(en noun)
  • (graph theory) A directed graph.
    • Hyponyms
    * multidigraph

    See also

    (other terms of interest) * adjacency matrix * finite relation * incidence matrix * (Directed graph)

    Etymology 2

    From (etyl) .

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (label) A two-character sequence used to enter a single conceptual character.
  • (label) A pair of letters, especially a pair representing a single phoneme.
    • Hyponyms
    * diphthong, ligature

    bigram

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (linguistics) a pair, often of words or tags, used in analysis.

    • Usage notes

    * Often used attributively - "bigram model".

    Hypernyms

    * n-gram

    Coordinate terms

    * trigram