Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

byte-order mark

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.14 in modern English

Syllables: byte-order -mark
IPA

25

Scrabble Score

13

Letters

3

Syllables

10

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

Alternative spelling of byte order mark.

Example Sentences

"To communicate which byte order was in use, U+FEFF (the byte-order mark) was used at the start of the stream as a magic number that is not logically part of the text the stream represents."
"A byte-order mark (BOM) is a special Unicode character."

Inflected Forms

byte-order marks (plural)

Questions

What does byte-order mark mean?: Alternative spelling of byte order mark.

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