[pho.no.gram] n [ISV] (1860) 1: a character or symbol used to represent a word, syllable, or phoneme
2: a succession of orthographic letters that occurs with the same phonetic value in several words (as the ight of bright, fight, and flight) -- pho.no.gram.mic or pho.no.gram.ic adj -- pho.no.gram.mi.cal.ly or pho.no.gram.i.cal.ly adv