Tetragraph

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What Wikipedia says

A tetragraph, from Greek τετρα (tetra) 'four', is a sequence of four letters used to represent a single sound (phoneme), or a combination of sounds, that do not necessarily correspond to the individual values of the letters. In German, for example, the tetragraph tsch represents the sound of the English digraph ch.

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