Incorrect vs Heterographic - What's the difference?
incorrect | heterographic |
Not correct; erroneous or wrong.
* He gave an incorrect answer to a simple question
Faulty or defective.
* The PC crashed due to incorrect programming
Inappropriate or improper.
* He was sacked because of his incorrect behaviour towards his secretary
Misspelled; of or pertaining to an incorrect spelling or a spelling that differs from accepted standards.
(linguistics) Of a writing system in which a particular symbol represents more than one possible sound.
* 2000 , Po-Ching Yip, The Chinese Lexicon: A Comprehensive Survey? , page 16
* 2008 , Elena L. Grigorenko & Adam J. Naples, Single-word Reading: Behavioral and Biological Perspectives''?, page 140
As adjectives the difference between incorrect and heterographic
is that incorrect is not correct; erroneous or wrong while heterographic is misspelled; of or pertaining to an incorrect spelling or a spelling that differs from accepted standards.incorrect
English
Adjective
(en adjective)Antonyms
* correct * right * properDerived terms
* incorrectly * incorrectnessheterographic
English
Adjective
(-)- In English. many letters are heterographic .
- Quite often, more than one heterographic monosyllable can represent the same mononym in particular contexts if they are semantically indifferentiable.
- 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.