How Many Trigraphs Are There?

There are two trigraphs that use a combination of vowel and consonant letters: IGH (which forms a vowel sound) and DGE (which forms a consonant sound).

How many Trigraphs are there in English?

There are twenty-eight combinations in English, ⟨ai—e, al—e, ar—e, au—e, aw—e, ay—e, ea—e, ee—e, ei—e, er—e, eu—e, ey—e, ia—e, ie—e, ir—e, is—e, oi—e, oo—e, or—e, ou—e, ow—e, oy—e, ui—e, ur—e, uy—e, ye—e, yr—e⟩, though it has been argued that a trigraph analysis is unnecessary.

What is an example of a trigraph?

Whilst a digraph is two letters combined to make a single sound in written or spoken English, we define a trigraph as a single sound that is depicted by three letters. ... For example, the word 'hatch', includes the three letters 'tch' at the end that make only one sound. This is a consonant trigraph.