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In a Phonological Orthography , a grapheme corresponds to one Phoneme . In spelling systems that are non-phonemic — such as the spellings used most widely for written English — multiple graphemes may represent a single phoneme. These are called Digraph s (two graphemes for a single phoneme) and Trigraph s (three graphemes). For example, the word ''ship'' contains four graphemes (''s'', ''h'', ''i'', and ''p'') but only three phonemes, because ''sh'' is a digraph. An example of a trigraph is the ''tch'' in ''itch''. Different Glyph s can represent the same grapheme, meaning they are Allographs . For example, the Minuscule letter '' A '' can be seen in two variants, with a hook at the top, and without. Not all glyphs are graphemes in the phonological sense; for example the Logogram Ampersand (''&'') represents the Latin word ''et'' (English word ''and''), which contains two phonemes. See also |