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A heptagraph is a seven-letter sequence of letters that behaves as a unit and is not the sum of its parts.

Heptagraphs are extremely rare. Morse code uses a heptagraph, ⟨· · · — · · —⟩, for the dollar sign. Most other fixed sequences of seven letters are composed of shorter multigraphs with a predictable result. The seven-letter German sequence ⟨schtsch⟩, used to transliterate the Russian letter щ, as in ⟨Borschtsch⟩ [bɔʁʃt͡ʃ] for Russian ⟨борщ⟩ [borɕː] "borscht", is a sequence of a trigraph ⟨sch⟩ [ʃ] and a tetragraph ⟨tsch⟩ [t͡ʃ]. Likewise, the Juu languages have been claimed to have a heptagraph ⟨dts’kx’⟩, but this is also a sequence, of ⟨dts’⟩ and ⟨kx’⟩.

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