Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

‐

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: ‐
IPA

0

Scrabble Score

0

Letters

1

Syllables

0

Unique Chars

Meaning

punct

Joins the components of compounds.

punct

Joins the components of compounds.

punct

Joins prefixes and suffixes according to stylistic rules, often to avoid confusion in pronunciation or meaning.

punct

Connects words in a compound modifier according to various stylistic rules.

punct

Used as sentence-final punctuation.

Example Sentences

"secretary‐general; yellow‐green; a here‐today‐gone‐tomorrow attitude; kitchen‐dinette‐office"
"a has‐been; cholesterol‐free; short‐changing"
"ultra‐ambitious"
"I must re‐press the shirt."
"X-ing"
"real‐world examples"

Inflected Forms

hyphen (name)

Phrases

curly brackets square bracket exclamation mark fraction slash parentheses (US full stop question mark quotation marks

Frequently Paired Words

apostrophe curly brackets brace square bracket bracket colon comma dash

Synonyms

· ◌̈ and hyphen -hyphen- cum -cum- / slash

Questions

What does ‐ mean?: Joins the components of compounds.

How to pronounce ‐

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