Language terminology

Analogy Grapheme Homonym Root word( Analogy, Grapheme, Homonym, Root word ) is the perception of similarity between two things. In spelling, we can use this to help learners develop their knowledge of selling patterns, e.g. night – right – sight – fright. Authors also use this to describe things, e.g. a heart compared to a pump.

The process of combining phonemes into larger elements such as clusters, syllables, words is a mnemonic blend segment morpheme( mnemonic, blend, segment, morpheme ). This also refers to a combination of two or more phonemes, particularly at the beginning and end of words.

Two letters representing one phoneme (sound) is called a blend grapheme morpheme digraph( blend, grapheme, morpheme, digraph ). The word church has 3 digraphs; ch - ur - ch

The written representation of a sound (which may consist of one or more letters) is called a grapheme morpheme homophone syllable( grapheme, morpheme, homophone, syllable ). A phoneme ('s') may be represented by different graphemes (e.g. ‘s’, ‘se’, ‘c’, ‘sc’ and ‘ce’)

Homonyms Homophones Mnemonics Root words( Homonyms, Homophones, Mnemonics, Root words ) are words which have the same sound as another but different meaning or different spelling. E.g. read / reed, pair / pear, right / write / rite

Homophones Suffixes Digraphs Homonyms( Homophones, Suffixes, Digraphs, Homonyms ) are words which have the same spelling or pronunciation as another but different meaning or origin. E.g. peer = lord and peer = look, fine = cost and fine = well.

A mnemonic homonym syllable blend( mnemonic, homonym, syllable, blend ) is a device to aid memory, for instance to learn spelling patterns or spellings. E.g. rhythm has your two hips moving for 'rhythm' or big elephants can always understand small elephants for 'because'.

The smallest meaningful unit of language forming part or all of a word is called a phoneme analogy morpheme syllable( phoneme, analogy, morpheme, syllable ). E.g. unfairly has 3 morphemes 'un', 'fair' and 'ly'.

The smallest unit of sound within a word is called a phoneme grapheme digraph syllable( phoneme, grapheme, digraph, syllable ). There are about 44 of these in English and they may be represented by 1, 2, 3 or 4 letters.

A suffix prefix root word grapheme( suffix, prefix, root word, grapheme ) is a morpheme that can be added to the beginning of a word to change its meaning. The following words all contain examples of this: inedible, disappear, supermarket, unintentional.

A syllable homonym root word blend( syllable, homonym, root word, blend ) is a word to which prefixes and suffixes may be added to make other words.

To blend prefix segment suffix( blend, prefix, segment, suffix ) is to break a word or part of a word down into its component phonemes. E.g. c – a – t, ch – a – t, ch – ar – t.

A suffix prefix root word homophone( suffix, prefix, root word, homophone ) is a morpheme that is added to the end of a word. E.g. the following words all contain examples of this: additional, worker, appointment.

Each beat in a word is called a syllable morpheme mnemonic segment( syllable, morpheme, mnemonic, segment ).