Definition
graphemically
adverb
- in a manner relating to or involving graphemes (the smallest units of a writing system)
Usage: linguistics; formal
Examples
- The two words are phonetically identical but graphemically distinct.
- Linguists analyze how letters are graphemically organized in different languages.
- The spelling reform changed how the language was graphemically represented.
- Students learned to distinguish between phonetic and graphemically based spelling rules.