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adjective

orthographic

relating to spelling and the standard written form of words

In a sentence

Six example sentences with orthographic, each labelled with its topic.

  • Editors preserved the poet's orthographic quirks, printing the misspelled place names exactly as the notebooks had them.

    Literature

  • The search index applies orthographic normalization first, so a query for color still finds every American spelling in the corpus.

    Technology

  • Beginning readers rely on orthographic patterns, recognizing whole letter sequences instead of sounding out each syllable aloud.

    Psychology

  • The 1996 German spelling reform changed orthographic rules for thousands of words, and some newspapers refused to adopt it.

    History

  • A proposed orthographic reform became a political fight, with one party defending the old spellings as national heritage.

    Politics

  • Road signs in the border region show orthographic differences between the two languages, so the same town is spelled two ways.

    Travel

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