orthographically
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- adverb
- /ɔrˈθəɡrəfɪkli/
- In some cases, a target word (e.g., wave) may be compared to an analogous word that is orthographically consistent (e.g., gave), but in other cases it may be compared to an analogous word that is orthographically inconsistent (e.g., have).
- orthographically irregular word
- orthographically similar
- orthographically transcribed
Examples
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The nonword targets consisted of orthographically legal, pronounceable letter strings ranging in length from three to six letters.
Academic text (2002) -
Each language sample was orthographically transcribed and then independently reviewed by two of the authors and a third individual (research assistant) to identify story propositions.
Academic text (2011) -
A total of 86 items in 45 poems were orthographically revised.
Academic text (2006) -
A total of 72 pictures with four words, one correct word and three orthographically similar words, are presented for the word comprehension subtest.
Academic text (2015) -
All storytelling was orthographically transcribed from the audio or video recordings by research assistants.
Academic text (2011) -
Pick (1978) also reported that first graders reject orthographically illegal letter strings as not being real words.
Academic text (1990) -
The sentence comprehension subtest consists of 28 sentences in which one word was deleted and replaced with five word choices: the correct word and four grammatically and orthographically similar words.
Academic text (2015) -
Cognates are words that are orthographically and semantically identical or nearly identical in both languages, as exemplified by the English word "perfect" and the Spanish word "perfecto."
Academic text (2013) -
Story retelling samples used for obtaining the SELPS scores were orthographically transcribed using SALT (Miller & Iglesias, 2008).
Academic text (2013) -
The words in the children's spelling test were carefully chosen to be orthographically appropriate for their grade level.
Surface Forms
Morphology
orthographically = orthographic (transparent) = orthography + ic + ly
The adverb is directly formed from the adjective 'orthographic' (itself from 'orthography'), so the meaning 'in a way relating to spelling' is predictable.
Etymology
Orthographically comes from the Greek parts ortho- ('straight, correct') and graph ('write'), the same graph you see in autograph or photograph. So, when we say something is done orthographically, we mean it is done in the 'correct writing' way, which is why the word is about spelling and how words are written.