orthographic neighborhood

• orthographic neighbourhood (UK)

orthographic neighborhood (plural orthographic neighborhoods) (US)

1. (orthography) The set of words that can be formed by changing one letter while maintaining letter positions.
   • 2009, Colin J. Davis, “Re(de)fining the Orthographic Neighborhood: The Role of Addition and Deletion Neighbors in Lexical Decision and Reading”, in Journal of Experimental Psychology, Human Perception and Performance, 35(5): 1550-1570:

     In summary, the present experiments have shown that addition and deletion neighbors form part of a word’s orthographic neighborhood.

• orthographic neighbor