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Answer for the clue "A word that is written with two letters in an alphabetic writing system ", 6 letters:
bigram

Alternative clues for the word bigram

Word definitions for bigram in dictionaries

Wiktionary Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. (context linguistics English) a pair, often of words or tags, used in analysis.

WordNet Word definitions in WordNet
n. a word that is written with two letters in an alphabetic writing system

The Collaborative International Dictionary Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
bigram \bigram\ n. a word that is written with two letters in an alphabetic writing system.

Wikipedia Word definitions in Wikipedia
A bigram or digram is a sequence of two adjacent elements from a string of tokens , which are typically letters, syllables, or words. A bigram is an n-gram for n =2. The frequency distribution of every bigram in a string is commonly used for simple statistical ...

Usage examples of bigram.

In ciphers, on the other hand, the basic unit is the letter, sometimes the letter-pair (digraph or bigram), very rarely larger groups of letters (polygrams).

Once I let my nose follow that clue, I started noticing other bigrams also corresponded to presidential initials.

And again, this presupposes that the would-be code breaker could recognize the bigrams, the nulls, the pattern in general.

Then he'd write a bigram on one side and pick a number out of his hat to be its diametric opposite, as you can see from the rough table on our graph.