Alphabetic Trigrams and Tetragrams

Authors

Jeff Grant

Abstract

Many words contain a trigram comprising three consecutive letters of the alphabet. The most commonly occurring are DEF (DEFine, DEFeat, DEFt, etc.) and STU (STUck, STUb, paSTUre, etc.).

Recommended Citation

Grant, Jeff (1999) "Alphabetic Trigrams and Tetragrams," Word Ways: Vol. 32 : Iss. 2 , Article 7.
Retrieved from: https://digitalcommons.butler.edu/wordways/vol32/iss2/7