In English. many letters are heterographic.
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Heterographic
//ˌhɛt.ə.ɹoʊˈɡɹæf.ik//
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1 entries- hétérographique adj (linguistics: of a writing system in which a particular symbol represents more than one possible sound)
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Quite often, more than one heterographic monosyllable […] can represent the same mononym in particular contexts if they are semantically indifferentiable.
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English has few such heterophonic homographs, hence much of the work in English (and French) examining orthography-phonology consistency effects at the whole-word level has focused on heterographic homophones.
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