| allograph |
| Definition: Glyphs that are members of the same set of glyphs that represent a particular grapheme. |
| Example: The f in friend and the gh in cough are two of the allographs in the set of glyphs that constitute the grapheme <f> |
| Etymology: The word derives from the Greek allos, other + graphos, writing |
| OED: The word`s first OED citation is from 1951: "We now have allomorph and morpheme, alloseme and sememe, allograph and grapheme." (R. A. Hall Jun. in Archivum Linguisticum III. 117) |